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On August 30, 2025, China, Tianjin: China’s flag (RL) flies next to the flags of India, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and other countries presented at the Shanghai summit. Ten regional security countries meet from Sunday to Monday in the Northern Chinese Port City of Tianjin, as well as “Observers and the Hospital”.
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The annual Shanghai organization on cooperation of the summit faded into Tianjin signals more closely between members at a time when the world has been foulled by the US trade policy and tariffs.
The two-day event, which was attended by more than 20 executives of the non-Western countries, was considered as a demonstration of Beijing’s ambitions to new global security and economic order that creates a challenge for the United States
In a thin veiled finger at the US President Donald Trump’s global tariff company, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his colleagues In their introductory speech on Monday, “the shadows of the mentality and the bullying of the Cold War did not scatter with new problems.”
The world entered the “new phase of turbulence” with global control at the “new crossroads”, SI said, calling for joint efforts to build “more fair and balanced framework of international government.”
To what extent, Beijing’s impetus will be, to remake, the global order will be materialized, it will still be necessary to find out. Meanwhile, here are the key trips from the SCO summit:
Thawing the relationship of India-China
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held the first meeting on Chinese land for seven years, sharing partners’ vision, not competitors.
Leaders of the two most popular countries of the world represent about 2.8 billion people-promised to intensify cooperation and work on resolving their long border dispute.
The rapprochement occurs when both countries face pressure from steep tariffs in the United States. “Modi and Si used all the diplomatic words available to alarm a new attachment … Partially motivated by high tariffs on Trump on both,” said Vendy Catler, senior vice -president of the Asia Politics Institute.
However, India remains with caution on the flood of cheap Chinese imports that threatens its internal industry, and border disputes are far from resolving. China’s relationship with Pakistan also remains noticeable in New Deli-Bikin’s relationship.
“Improving trade relations will be not easy,” said Katler, noting that New Delhi will probably retain restrictive measures after a number of anti -dumping cases against Chinese imports.
Xi, Putin, Modi Troika
The summit also captured XI, Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, holding his hands and sharing a good laugh on the sidelines of the SCO, at a time when the US accused India and China of nourishing Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
India – launched the United States as a counterweight China – has been the goal of steady Trump tariffs, the Kremlin threw Washington’s impetus to peace in Ukraine, and Beijing continues to be paired with the United States on trade, technology and geopolitical issues.
The symbolism of the three leaders together designs China as an alternative to the United States as a partner. Trump “breathes a new life” at the summit, giving China the opportunity to determine its diplomacy as more reliable than in Washington, said Jeremy Chan, senior analyst at Eurosia Group.
Modi told his Russian colleague that India and Russia stood nearby even in difficult times after Putin called Modi his “dear friends”, describing their relationship as “friendly and trusting”. Later on Monday Modi Posted on x A photo of yourself with Putin in the Russian leader’s armored limo.
“India uses this to send the conjunctural signal indirectly to Washington that it has strategic options not only in Beijing but also in Moscow,” Chan said.
For Russia, SCO also remains one of the few international platforms where Putin is not defensive, emphasizing Moscow’s strong ties with influential Asian partners, despite Western sanctions.
Road Map AI Partnership
Tianjin’s Declaration Council confirmed commitments on commitments Strengthen artificial intelligence Cooperation, emphasizes “equal rights of all countries to develop and use II”.
Subsequently, Prime Minister Lee Ten was commemorated last month at another conference in Shanghai, where he proposed to create an organization to coordinate global efforts to regulate AI rapid development technology.
Members of SCO, In the joint declarationHe promised to cooperate on reducing risks and increasing safety and accountability for the benefits of humanity, while obliging to implement a roadmap for joint cooperation and development of II.
In A statement Following the SCO AI cooperation forum, which took place in May, Beijing urged Member States to work together in the construction of the AI application Center for Cooperation Center, while obliging to promote AI models with open source and shared advanced technologies.
“Beijing leaned toward an” open source (high-language model) “as a performance infrastructure,” said Paul Trioli, a DGA Group partner, adding that the problem is “how to regulate the use of open source models on the borders.”
New Development Bank
Some member countries agreed to create a SCO Development Bank that would be a significant step in the long-standing unit The purpose of creating an alternative payment system This reduces the dependence on the US dollar.
China is the largest shareholder of the Asian Investment Bank infrastructure, which was launched in 2014 to finance projects in developing countries as a direct task in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
While the proposed development bank can avoid AIB scale, it reflects the XI ambitions as “architect” of global governance under the guidance of China, said Stephen Okun, Chief Executive Director of Apac Advisors Counseling.
This year Beijing also promised $ 2 billion ($ 280 million) for the member states and another $ 10 billion ($ 1.4 billion) in loans to members of the organization over the next three years.
