PM Modi, President Putin amongst 20 world leaders to attend SCO summit: China

It is essential to have regional solidarity amid turbulence in worldwide panorama, China mentioned on Friday (August 22, 2025) because it ready to host heads of states and worldwide organisations for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin on August 31 and September 1.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will chair the summit, which is anticipated to be attended by a bunch of world leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Briefing reporters concerning the summit, China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin mentioned it can observe new visions to beat “cultural wars and chilly struggle mentality”, whereas trying into new measures to advance improvement, keep safety, and promote prosperity.

The assembly, internet hosting greater than 20 world leaders from international locations together with Belarus, Armenia, Malaysia, Nepal, Türkiye, and Egypt, comes towards the backdrop of uncertainties in world commerce, triggered by the tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

“In in the present day’s world, outdated mindsets of hegemonism and energy politics nonetheless have affect, with sure international locations trying to prioritise their very own pursuits above others, significantly threatening world peace and stability,” Mr. Liu mentioned with out naming any particular nation whereas emphasising on the necessity to strengthen regional cooperation.

The SCO goals at stability to foster lasting peace, concord, and friendship whereas addressing uncertainties in worldwide atmosphere, Mr. Liu mentioned, including that the summit will give attention to practising multilateralism and safeguarding regional stability.

(The author is in Beijing at an invite from the China Public Diplomacy Association)