Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Deepens Eurasian Supply Chains-Critical Minerals Move Closer to the Strategic Core

Highlights

• The SCO Bishkek summit approved 28 documents advancing trade, investment, energy, and supply-chain cooperation without forming a formal critical-minerals cartel.
• Xi Jinping called for SCO cooperation in energy, resources, and green mining, reinforcing China's dominant role in rare-earth processing and permanent magnets.
• Western nations face a growing Eurasian economic sphere capable of moving strategic materials from mine to factory with reduced reliance on Western-controlled institutions.
• India-China tensions complicate SCO unity, but the broader architecture of resource, processing, and logistics integration continues to take shape.