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China to host SCO summit, showcasing Global South solidarity with Xi, Putin, and Modi
The summit, the largest since 2001 with over 20 leaders, aims to ease India-China tensions and promote regional cooperation amid shifting global power dynamics.
- The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit will take place in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin between August 31 and September 1, bringing together more than 20 global leaders, including Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin.
- The summit takes place against the backdrop of easing tensions between India and China following half a decade of intensified border disputes, alongside increased tariff challenges facing New Delhi from the Trump administration.
- The SCO has grown from its original six Eurasian countries to include 10 full members and 16 observers, yet experts note that its impact on key security challenges continues to be limited.
- Eric Olander said the summit is about “powerful optics,” with Xi using it to showcase a post-American-led international order while Modi aims to maintain momentum in détente with China.
- Experts anticipate that the summit will include announcements of gradual steps such as reducing military presence along the border, loosening restrictions on trade and visas, collaborating on climate initiatives, and enhancing government and cultural exchanges.
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'Powerful optics': China's Xi to welcome Putin, Modi in grand show of solidarity
President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security forum in China next week in a powerful show of Global South solidarity in the age of Donald Trump while also helping sanctions-hit Russia pull off another diplomatic coup.
The Chinese number one spoke in Beijing during a meeting with the president of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, Viacheslav Volodine, and a few days before the arrival in China of his Russian counterpart for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Xi set to host Putin, PM Modi in show of solidarity amid Trump's tariff threats
Ahead of the SCO summit, experts pointed out that while bloc expansion will be a key focus, the mega-event will also serve as Xi Jinping’s way of showing the US a mirror of the emerging new world order.
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