Overview

• Roughly twenty heads of state and government arrived for the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit hosted by China in Tianjin.
• India’s Narendra Modi is making his first visit to China in seven years, with meetings expected with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin during the event.
• Vladimir Putin and other leaders plan to stay on for a Beijing military parade marking the WWII anniversary, which North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will also attend.
• Xi held a series of bilaterals, including with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Egypt’s prime minister and Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing, stressing China’s role as a source of stability.
• Organizers are preparing a joint declaration and a 2035 roadmap as signals of unity, even as the SCO remains a loose forum without mutual-defense commitments and with internal rifts such as India–Pakistan tensions.