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🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳 SCO: Russia, China and India deepen strategic cooperation

The SCO summit sees China, Russia and India getting much closer, Fabio Massimo Parenti, associate professor of international political economy at the China Foreign Affairs University, tells Sputnik.

💬 "The result of the SCO, as we saw at the very end in the trilateral handshaking of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, is that India is likely to become another decision-maker and moving force in SCO," echoes Gilbert Doctorow, an international relations and Russian affairs analyst.

SCO's growing geopolitical weight:

🟠 The SCO is moving into a financial and commercial trading dimension. China's economic growth remains a driving force

🟠 SCO is important in implementing new Eurasian trade routes. The North-South Corridor has important ramifications in the whole Eurasian commercial and geopolitical cooperation.

🟠 It continues to play a major security role with Russia having proven its efficiency in the field

🟠 SCO's influence is growing in Asia, presenting "a fast-building counterweight to NATO and US alliances in the Indo-Pacific," Parenti says.

🟠 Russia-China-India's trilateral partnership makes the SCO a key platform to solve Eurasian matters, while BRICS remain a viable format for global issues, according to Doctorow.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China: Complementary economies safeguarding a just global order

🗣Russia and China have shared interests spanning from economic development to supporting multipolarity, John Gong, professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, tells Sputnik.

"The two major powers do have a common interest in maintaining stability and maintaining the global order," says Gong.

"Second, both countries' economies are very complementary to each other. The trade and investment area has essentially been a booming story."

🟠 The Sino-Russian strategic cooperation has taken on a new significance as Russia is currently re-orienting to the East

🟠 Russia is both increasing investments in its Far East and seeking more trade opportunities with Asian countries

🟠 China is stepping up investments in Russia and is willing to participate in new joint projects including infrastructure, exploration of resources, investing in commercial real estate and enhancing tourism

🟠 Russia-China bilateral trade has risen by nearly $100B since 2021, as Russian President Vladimir Putin noted in an interview with Xinhua

The West's reaction?

"I can probably invoke one phrase: 'sour grapes'," says Gong. "I think the European side is probably not very happy seeing this warming of relations between China and Russia, as well as the warming of relations of all participating SCO member states with Russia."

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🎥🎥 Putin attends Victory Day Parade in China

The Russian President will be present at the Victory Day parade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II.

📹 Watch live in our Telegram at 4 am Moscow time

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🇰🇵🇨🇳 Kim Jong-un's daughter makes first official visit to China

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is accompanied by his daughter, Kim Ju-ae, on his official visit to China, photos published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) show.

This marks her first documented participation in a diplomatic trip to China, as noted by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

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🟠 Russia and China: Complementary economies safeguarding a JUST global order

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🟠 SCO: Russia, China and India deepen strategic cooperation

🟠 It's possible to find consensus on ensuring Ukraine's security guarantees – Putin

🟠 Another round of consultations between Russian, US foreign ministries is planned

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🔊 India, China, and Brazil are suppressing the American economy through their tariffs, Trump claimed in a phone interview with journalist Scott Jennings.

Losing the right to impose tariffs would be an economic disaster for the US, Trump said.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel’s actions in Gaza are genocide – scholars

🔊 Tel Aviv's military campaign in Gaza meets “the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)”, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has declared in a recent resolution.

The adoption was supported by 86% of members that voted, with 28% of its 500 members participating in the voting process.

📑 The document calls for Israel to "immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide."

The body was established in 1994 and includes historians, academics, political scientists and human rights activists.

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🔊 China needs US 'much more' than vice versa — Trump

The US president added he may take a "different stance" if there is no progress on the Ukrainian conflict.

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🌎🤝 SCO: From security to GLOBAL governance

💬 "The West should interpret this convergence as strategic, not just temporary convenience, as the SCO summit demonstrated its own ten years plans," Fabio Massimo Parenti, associate professor of international political economy at China Foreign Affairs University, tells Sputnik.

"SCO, BRICS+, BRI are building a multipolar order where the West must adapt and not counterattack."

While asserting sovereignty as a key, the “Shanghai spirit” doesn't entail any military confrontation.

💬 "It is very important to stress that... this is the least of all a military bloc in formation," Gilbert Doctorow, an international relations and Russian affairs analyst says. "And that is a big message for the coming new world order."

Global governance system

🟠 Chairman Xi has proposed a "global governance" initiative. President Putin agreed, adding that the SCO could take "a leading role" in forming the system.

🟠 "Such a system would be genuinely balanced, reflect the interests of a broad range of countries, and create opportunities for the advancement of international law and relations, as well as for sustainable development and security," Putin declared at the SCO summit.

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