Chinese President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security forum in China next week, in a powerful show of Global South solidarity in the age of Donald Trump's second U.S. Presidency while also helping sanctions-hit Russia pull off a diplomatic coup.
Aside from Russian President Vladimir Putin, leaders from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia have been invited to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, to be held in the northern port city of Tianjin from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1.
The summit will feature Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first visit to China in more than seven years as the two neighbors work on further defusing tensions roiled by deadly border clashes in 2020.
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