Leading historian issues warning of a new cold war

"I believe that Russia's prime minister Vladimir Putin is about to have his Molotov-Ribbentrop moment," said Ferguson, referring to the pre-second world war non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. "He's going to realise that Moscow and Beijing can have a new and meaningful partnership."
Ferguson also warned that the West had to sit up and take notice of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation. The SCO was officially founded in 2001 as a counterpart to Nato and the European Union. Aside from China and Russia its members are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Ferguson said that the SCO had sneaked "under the radar" of the West, and its activities should be carefully monitored.

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