Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday welcomed leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, in which 10 non-NATO countries are permanent members and others, such as Turkey, which is a NATO member, participate as partners.[1], [2]
The summit’s message is a challenge to the West and U.S. dominance, while reaffirming alliances among SCO member states, according to the Guardian.
This effort appears to have been bolstered by the turbulence caused by Trump’s tariff regime and other foreign policy moves. The timing was also telling: the meeting between Modi and Xi took place just five days after Washington imposed punitive 50% tariffs on Indian goods over Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil.
Ten countries — including China, India, Iran and Russia — make up the SCO, representing nearly half of the world’s population and 23.5% of global GDP.
China and Russia, described by their leaders as bound by an “unlimited” partnership, also used the summit to discuss Putin’s recent meeting with Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Putin accused the West of driving the war in Ukraine, citing among other reasons its push to bring the country into NATO.
Several participants are expected to remain in China to attend Wednesday’s military parade in Beijing, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II — which China refers to as the “war of resistance against Japanese aggression.”
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