{"id":16874,"date":"2026-08-31T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=16874"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:56:39","slug":"putin-modi-and-xi-unite-against-us-at-global-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/putin-modi-and-xi-unite-against-us-at-global-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin, Modi and Xi Unite Against US at Global Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to New York Post<\/em>, Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/strong>, Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/strong> and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/strong> are attending the gathering in Bishkek, the capital city, where multiple bilateral meetings are taking place alongside the main summit proceedings.<\/p>\n

Putin and Xi held talks on the sidelines of the event, with the Russian leader affirming Moscow’s willingness to establish a permanent visa-free travel arrangement with China, Russian state media reported.<\/p>\n

Further discussions are scheduled for Tuesday between Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian<\/strong>, when the formal SCO sessions officially commence.<\/p>\n

Summit Platform for Isolated Regimes<\/h2>\n

For Russia, now more than four and a half years into its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, and Iran, six months into conflict with the United States and Israel, the summit represents a critical opportunity to deepen relationships with non-Western allies and partners.<\/p>\n

The SCO was established in 2001 by China, Russia and four Central Asian republics as a security cooperation forum. Over the past quarter-century, the organization has expanded both its membership roster and geopolitical ambitions, though its actual objectives and operational programmes remain notably undefined and its public profile relatively limited.<\/p>\n

The bloc currently comprises ten full member states: Russia, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Numerous additional countries participate with “dialogue partner” status.<\/p>\n

Beijing’s Vision for Alternative World Order<\/h2>\n

Alongside Russia, China has actively promoted the SCO as a counterbalance to Western-aligned institutions such as the G7. In recent years, Beijing has pushed to broaden the organization’s reach and authority, offering development aid and financial support to member states.<\/p>\n

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared last week that the organization has successfully charted a new course for regional cooperation. Beijing has consistently championed the concept of an alternative global order, with Moscow’s backing.<\/p>\n

Deep Divisions Among Member States<\/h2>\n

While the summit allows participating nations to demonstrate continued international engagement despite deteriorating relations with the West, the SCO is far from a cohesive political or military alliance. Analysts emphasize that member countries harbour substantial disagreements and pursue their own separate strategic interests.<\/p>\n

For India specifically, experts suggest the gathering serves more as a symbolic exercise and strategic positioning tool than a venue for meaningful policy achievements. The forum is dominated by China and includes Pakistan among its members\u2014both nations with which New Delhi maintains adversarial relationships.<\/p>\n

Dinakar Peri<\/strong>, a fellow in security studies at Carnegie India, explained that the SCO provides India with representation in a region increasingly defined by great power rivalry, enabling the country to safeguard its interests, monitor evolving geopolitical dynamics and present itself as a credible regional actor.<\/p>\n

The platform gives New Delhi direct insight into regional developments and allows it to balance its positions among competing powers, Peri noted.<\/p>\n

Turkey Seeks Full Membership<\/h2>\n

Turkey, which maintains partner status within the SCO, is also leveraging the platform to enhance its regional standing. Ankara views potential SCO membership as part of a foreign policy strategy that seeks to preserve its traditional Western alliances through NATO while simultaneously expanding its influence across Eurasia.<\/p>\n

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/strong>, who brought Turkey into the organization as a dialogue partner in 2012, has repeatedly expressed his ambition for full membership. While Turkey enjoys substantial trade relations with the European Union under a 1995 customs agreement, its EU accession process has been stalled for over 25 years.<\/p>\n

With information from New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China, Russia and India’s leaders met in Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, a bloc challenging Western influence with ten member states including Iran and Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":16873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[12718,3256,2843,6451,12717,222,333],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-16874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bishkek","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-masoud-pezeshkian","tag-narendra-modi","tag-shanghai-cooperation-organization","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-xi-jinping","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16884,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874\/revisions\/16884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16874"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=16874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}