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At the SCO Summit in Bishkek, India’s Narendra Modi, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and China’s Xi Jinping were captured sharing a brief, smiling moment during the official family photo, a display seen as signaling camaraderie and strategic alignment among the three powers. Modi and Putin held a bilateral meeting earlier in the day, while Xi did not have a scheduled one-on-one with either leader during the event.
Leaders from China, Russia, and India gathered in Bishkek for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit to reinforce a broad non‑Western bloc as a counterweight to U.S. influence. Highlights included Putin signaling Russia’s willingness to make visa‑free travel with China permanent, while Modi framed India’s role as hedging in a regional order reshaped by greater cooperation among SCO members like Iran and Pakistan. The gathering underscored both the SCO’s expansion and its internal disagreements, as security measures limited activity in Bishkek and some partners push for clearer outcomes and closer ties with non‑Western powers.
At the Bishkek SCO summit, Xi Jinping unveiled a four-point plan—development first, security as a priority, people-centered approach, and dialogue for governance—aimed at embedding China’s Global Development, Global Security, Global Civilization, and Global Governance initiatives within the SCO, while leaders issued the Bishkek Declaration, updated the SCO Charter, and 28 outcome documents; China also announced an AI cooperation center for SCO, a China-SCO port economy center in Tianjin, and 100 joint technology projects over three years.