Yves here. Despite the enthusiasm over the recent SCO conference and the final cinching of the long-in-gestation Siberia 2 pipeline, getting the SCO and BRICS states enough on the same page to make a difference remains a very big challenge, even with US belligerence and ineptness pushing them together. At the time of the SCO, Conor provided a raft of links, nearly all from non-US sources (including Indian ones) and they itemized a long list of difficult issues between India and China where there was no obvious resolution (as in the underlying interests were at basic odds). Recall also that...