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KEPENTINGAN CINA DALAM
SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION
(SCO)
Erna Herawati
1NIM. 0802045077
Abstract
Central Asia is a strategic region and has the potential to attract the attention of
others, including China. This area is also not free from a number of security issues.
China that geographically adjacent to the Central Asia have interests in this region,
which is in an effort to achieve then build the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
China's interests in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is not only national
interests, but also international interests. China’s national interests related to
security interests include national security to protect integrity of territorial and
national unity of China; combating transnational crime; and stabilize the
northwestern region of China, and economic security to increase domestic economy
and to put influence in Central Asia. Then China’s international interests in the field
of security is identical interests, where the interests of China is equal with the
interests of the other SCO member states. China and the other SCO members together
want to prevent the dissemination of three evil forces threat that increasingly, and
creating regional security and stability in Central Asia.
Keywords :
China, Central Asia, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Security
Interests.
Pendahuluan
Asia Tengah merupakan wilayah yang sangat penting, terletak diantara dua benua dan
menyimpan sejumlah kisah penting dalam sejarah dunia sebelum berada dalam
kekuasaan Uni Soviet. Setelah kekuasaan Uni Soviet runtuh wilayah ini kembali
menarik perhatian sejumlah negara termasuk Cina. Setelah disintegrasi dengan Uni
Soviet, negara-negara di Asia Tengah harus menghadapi sejumlah permasalahan
keamanan. Secara umum kondisi keamanan regional di wilayah ini dapat dikatakan
berada dalam bahaya, karena harus menghadapi konflik internal di dalam negerinya
sendiri maupun konflik antar negara.
Ketika kelima negara Asia Tengah memutuskan untuk menjadi negara independen
mereka juga berupaya untuk mengatasi konflik tersebut termasuk kelompok kriminal
yang semakin tersebar luas yang tidak hanya bergerak antar-regional bahkan
1
Mahasiswi Program S1Ilmu Hubungan Internasional, Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, Universitas Mulawarman ( [email protected], 2015 ).