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Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit challenges the US but its reach is murky

The summit highlights efforts by SCO members to counter Western influence and promote economic and security cooperation amid ongoing conflicts.

  • On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, where more than 20 leaders gather for the two-day event.
  • Turkey has long sought to mediate, leveraging its NATO ties and Black Sea coastline, and Ankara hosted three rounds of talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations earlier this year without a breakthrough.
  • Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said the Ukraine war will be a central topic at the SCO summit, with analysts noting the SCO as a platform for Moscow to project influence since February 2022.
  • Putin will extend his trip into a state visit to China that includes a Beijing military parade on September 3 and hopes for trilateral talks with Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping.
  • Analysts caution the summit will test whether the SCO acts cohesively or remains fragmented, even as the SCO expanded last year to include Belarus and China aims to lead the Global South representing half the world's population.
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The two leaders met on the sidelines of the summit in China - The Russian president spoke of Ankara's "special role" in mediation

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Today the meeting of the member states of the Shanghai Organization for Cooperation ends. Host China is looking for proximity to its neighbour India - and Russia's leader Putin is rolling out the red carpet. By Benjamin Eyssel.

·Hamburg, Germany
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The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, is in China, for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The Russian army again launched dozens of drones on Ukrainian territory, on the night of Sunday to Monday.

·Paris, France
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The meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization began on Sunday and has a series of bilateral meetings when the block is pressed by Donald Trump's tariffs

·São Paulo, Brazil
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A kyrielle of Eurasian leaders meet at a summit supposed to show that a model of relations, with China in its centre, is possible.

·Montreal, Canada
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