Match the following: List I A. SCO B. QUAD C. ASEAN D. MAD List II 1. Trade, Politics and Culture 2. Facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational and sociocultural integration 3. Nuclear weapons 4. Strategic forum

SCO

• SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international organization.
• It’s a Eurasian political, economic and military organization aiming to maintain peace, security, and stability in the region.
• Created in 2001.
• The SCO Charter was signed in 2002 and entered into force in 2003.
• The SCO's official languages are Russian and Chinese.

Quad

• Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is the informal strategic dialogue between India, the USA, Japan, and Australia with a shared objective to ensure and support a “free, open and prosperous” Indo-Pacific region.

ASEAN

• The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional organization that was established to promote political and social stability amid rising tensions among the Asia-Pacific’s post-colonial states. Some of its Objectives are as follows:
• To accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development for a prosperous and peaceful community of Southeast Asian Nations.
• To promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter.
• To promote active collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest in the economic, social, cultural, technical, scientific, and administrative fields.

MAD

• MAD or Mutual Assured Destruction is a strategic military doctrine in which the use of nuclear weapons on a full scale would theoretically result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.
• This strategy ultimately sends both parties into an endless loop of increased military budgets.