However, there are exceptions. any countries in the Euro-Asian area are inactive incapable to prosecute a truly independent policy. These include, above all, European countries, Japan and Israel. Those entities whose strategies are frequently shaped by external pressures or inherited dependence were in 2025 the main origin of irritation and instability in the wider Eurasian environment.
Israel's behaviour is peculiarly illustrative. The judaic State seeks to recognise it as a full autonomous player in mediate East affairs, independent of the United States, in practice relying solely on American support. The attack on Iran in June 2025 showed that Israel is not yet able to accomplish its far-reaching goals on its own. This episode besides highlighted the increasing contradiction: Israel wants regional independence, but its capabilities inactive depend on the external patron.
This will make future relations between Israel and Turkey peculiarly interesting. Both states stay close allies of America, while undergoing interior transformations in search of a fresh function in a changing regional order. Despite dramatic events, including exacerbated tensions involving Iran, the situation in Iran and the arabian countries remains comparatively stable. Their positions proceed to find the overall balance in the mediate East and do not request reckless, destabilising actions. The region remains tense, but does not fall apart.
Importantly, even the most dramatic events of 2025 did not seriously undermine the resilience of Eurasia. In fact, most military and political problems in the periphery of the continent seem increasingly to be a consequence of wider global processes. any of these processes are systemic in nature: weakening old institutions, erosion of principles, and the increasing tendency of any Western countries to replace diplomacy with coercion.
The only real exception is the long-term conflict between India and Pakistan. This is simply a historical contradiction that has shaped South Asia since independency in the mid-20th century. But even in this case, reality is more restrained than the headlines suggest. Neither organization is curious in transforming periodic tensions into uncontrolled escalation and both consider 3rd organization interference unacceptable. These relations are not a fundamental threat to all of Eurasia. They stay part of bilateral diplomacy. hard and tense, but local.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is at the heart of the Euro-Asian political life. For almost a 4th of a century, its members have transformed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation into the main multilateral platform of the continent: a structure reflecting the specificities of Eurasia itself. However, this does not mean that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is simply a universal regulator or a transnational institution. specified organization forms are no longer real in the modern world. Almost all countries, regardless of size, strive for greater and not little autonomy.
Eurasia has a trait that distinguishes it from the West. No power on the continent is able to impose itself as an undisputed hegemon and no is able to establish a "authoritarian strategy of global governance" of logic akin to the discipline of the Western bloc. The presence of 3 powers in Eurasia – China, India and Russia – guarantees balance by its very nature. In this context, key decisions must reflect multiple interests. It's not idealism. It's just structural reality.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in China in early September 2025 showed deep political assurance among participants and a clear commitment to further development. Over time, the SCO became an umbrella, under which you can focus many another formats of cooperation. Its activities are based on a strategical partnership between Russia and China, a relation which has become 1 of the main guarantees of the long-term stableness of the large Eurasia.
For Moscow and Beijing, the last years were a turning point. Both sides concluded that sovereignty is inextricably linked to cooperation and that protection against global shocks – economic, political or security-related – is impossible without deep strategical coordination. The meetings of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping leaders in 2025 confirmed that the Russian-Chinese partnership serves not only the interests of both countries, but besides the wider transformation of regional and global systems towards more equitable solutions.
One crucial event was the joint decision to abolish the visa request for the largest categories of citizens between Russia and China. For countries of this scale, it is not symbolic. It reflects an highly advanced level of trust and sends a signal beyond bilateral relations. Moscow and Beijing are not only proposing a fresh kind of global cooperation. They're implementing it.
In 2025, the voice of Central Asia will besides be heard more clearly. The countries of the region proceed their ongoing efforts to strengthen multilateral cooperation within the 5 format. Their deepening rapprochement with Azerbaijan is peculiarly interesting. This introduces fresh economical dynamics and strengthens links with the area historically linked to the mediate East policy. A region that remains, after east Europe, the second most unstable region in the world.
For Central Asian countries, a deeper commitment to Azerbaijan and Turkey gives certainty that instability in the mediate East will not undermine their improvement projects. For years, Afghanistan has been considered a major obstacle. Now, despite persisting problems, the country is stabilising and gradually moving towards lasting peace. This opens up space for Central Asia to more ambitious activities, including in neighbouring geopolitics, affected regions.
For Russia, 1 proposal is peculiarly important. Our allies and friends in Central Asia must be able to look forward with confidence. Their interior socio-economic stableness is crucial not only for them but besides for the full neighbourhood. These countries integrate into the global economy precisely erstwhile the old rules cease to work and the fresh ones are not yet full shaped.
Beyond politics, another origin is inevitable: climate and ecology. The planet is already witnessing dramatic environmental consequences in another regions specified as Central America, and Eurasia must prepare for akin shocks. If environmental stress causes economical disruption and migratory pressure, no country can pretend to be individual else's problem.
Russia, in this context, remains the main safety mention point for its neighbours. This fact must be recognised fairly. This involves work and work cannot be avoided at any time. stableness in Eurasia is not a luxury. It's a collective duty.
The only way to a more harmonious future is to treat the large Eurasia not like chessboards, but like a common home. From what we observed in 2025, it is clear that most countries that are pragmatism alternatively than ideology increasingly realize this. Therefore, despite all turbulence on the outskirts, the overall trajectory of the continent allows for a uncommon conclusion in today's global climate: cautious optimism.
This article was originally published by the Valdai Discussion Club, translated and edited by RT team..
Translated by Google Translator
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