China is using its membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to advance its energy interests across the whole of Central Asia. Armed with money, shared borders, and a shared aversion to US influence in the region, a central part of China's emerging energy strategy is Central Asian capture at least where resources are concerned. Interestingly, first time JES contributor David Lamoureux writes that through SCO expansion a new Eurasian Energy Community could emerge stretching from the Russian Federation across the Middle East to South Asia.