- PM Shehbaz, Russia’s Putin, Indian Prime Minister Modi and other leaders participate in session.
- XI talks about constructive participation in int’l affairs, is against hegemonism.
- SCO has set a model for a new type of international relationships: President XI.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday criticized “bullying behavior” in the world order when he gathered regional leaders for a summit.
He called for the leaders – including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and India’s Narendra Modi – to “adhere to justice and justice … opposite cold war mentality, camp confrontation and bullying behavior” in a speech in the northern city of Tianjin.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is gathered for a two-day summit, consists of China, Pakistan, India, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadsjikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus-with 16 more countries affiliated as observers or “dialogue partners”.
China and Russia have sometimes declared SCO as an alternative to NATO’s military alliance.
“The current international situation is becoming chaotic and intertwined,” XI told the leaders.
“The security and development tasks facing the member states have become even more challenging,” he added.
“When we look back despite stormy times, we have achieved success by practicing Shanghai spirit,” he said, referring to the group’s name.
“When we look at the future, with the world undergoing turbulence and transformation, we must continue to follow the Shanghai spirit, keep our feet on the ground, forge forward and better perform the organization’s functions.”
XI said China will cooperate with all parties to the SCO to take the regional security forum to a new level as he revealed his ambition for a new global security order that poses a challenge for the United States.
SCO has set a model for a new type of international relationships, XI said in the opening of comments at the summit, adding that the forum unequivocally opposed external interference.
XI also spoke of constructive participation in international affairs, contrary to braver hegemonism and power politics, as well as promoting multilateralism in his remarks.
The security-focused block, which began as a group of six Eurasian nations, has been expanded to 10 permanent members and 16 dialogue and observer countries in recent years.
The United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said China played a “basic” role in maintaining global multilateralism on Sunday.
Analysts say China will use this year’s largest summit ever to demonstrate an alternative vision of global governance to the US-led international order at a time of unpredictable decision making, a US retreat from multilateral organizations and geopolitical Flux.
Beijing has also used the summit as an opportunity to repair tapes with New Delhi.
Modi, who is in China on his first visit of seven years, and XI both agreed on Sunday that their countries are development partners, not rivals and discussed ways to improve trade tapes in the midst of global customs uncertainty.
