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SCO Summit: Cooperation or Competition?

The SCO Summit 2025 in Tianjin expanded strategic partnerships and approved a development strategy for 2026-2035, marking the largest gathering since 2001 with 20+ countries attending.

  • On Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi highlighted outcomes at the SCO Summit in Tianjin, China, where leaders of more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organizations adopted the Tianjin Declaration.
  • China used its SCO chairmanship this year to promote the Shanghai Spirit, call for adherence to international law and the UN Charter, and present the SCO as a consensus-based alternative to Western unilateralism.
  • At the summit, leaders inaugurated four new SCO centers, agreed to establish an SCO development bank, and completed reforms creating a 27-nation SCO family including Laos.
  • Observers said the summit underscored a growing Russia‑China strategic partnership and India's role while sending a message challenging United States dominance, though there were no formal security moves; Kyrgyzstan will chair the SCO next, with the 2026 summit in Bishkek.
  • A SCO development strategy through 2035 was approved, positioning the SCO to shape global norms and amplify the Global South's voice amid multipolarity.
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Valérie Niquet, a researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research and author of "Indo-Pacific, New Center of the World" at Tallandier, analyses the staging of an anti-Trump front at the diplomatic summit in Tianjin, China.

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To advocate a global governance where the West is no longer a major player, in which China would be the great power. This is the will that Beijing has planned before a good twenty states, including India and Russia, at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in the Chinese megalopolis of Tianjin. The Press is taking stock with two experts.

·Montreal, Canada
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The multipolar world strategy arises at a time when the regional block acknowledged that the increase in geopolitical tensions represents an increasing threat to the security of its members.

·Portugal
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Lean Right

On the occasion of the 25th OCS Summit, more than 20 heads of state met in China. Xi Jinping called for a "cold war mentality" to be opposed.

·Paris, France
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CGTN broke the news in Beijing, China on Sunday, August 31, 2025.
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