Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Kind of a freaky-sounding group, the SCO (wiki) seems to be the new USSR - only the states are less closely linked together than were those of the USSR.

Well, they're getting uppity - telling the U.S. to get the fuck out of their region. We can handle our own oil and security very well by ourselves, fuck you very much.

I didn't realize how close all the 'stan' countries were to China. That'd make me nervous as heck, too.