US EditionXi and Putin Round on West at Regional Summit in China
Over 20 leaders gathered at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit to address regional security and development challenges while opposing Western influence, organizers said.
- On Sunday at the SCO summit in Tianjin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin shared a smiling, minute-long chat, calling interpreters to continue their conversation.
- The SCO summit brought together more than 20 leaders in Tianjin on Sunday, marking the bloc's largest meeting since 2001 with China hosting and President Xi chairing to counter Western influence.
- Online reaction ranged from amusement to speculation as social media viewers noted Vladimir Putin's strange hand gesture at the SCO summit, though observers said its intent was unclear and some speculated he 'seems drunk'.
- In his speech, Vladimir Putin defended Russia's Ukraine offensive, blaming the West and stating, `This crisis wasn't triggered by Russia's attack on Ukraine, but was a result of a coup in Ukraine, which was supported and provoked by the West`.
- The summit positions the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as a non-Western alliance limiting NATO's influence, reviewing 25 years, and adopting a ten-year development strategy before Wednesday's Beijing parade with Kim Jong Un.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage this Monday of the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a security alliance, to strengthen relations with some of its allies and to blame the West for the war in Ukraine. He pointed out that from the Kremlin's point of view the 'crisis in Ukraine' arose from the 'state coup' provoked by the West, as Russian officialism usually refers to the pro-European protests of the Maidan in …
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