China’s Meeting With India and Russia Was About More than Trump
The relationships between the three powers remain complex, with fundamental differences that are hard to resolve.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit at the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025. Credit: Suo Takekuma/Pool Photo via AP Images
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, it also masks a hundred cracks. Scenes of handshakes and smiles shared between the leaders of India, Russia and China during the recently-concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin have made headlines across the Western press, mostly couching the gathering in terms of the message it sent to the United States and its allies.
An excerpt from a speech on 'Pooling the Strength of the SCO To Improve Global Go
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