Overview

• More than 20 leaders will convene in Tianjin on Aug. 31–Sep. 1 for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s largest leaders’ meeting to date.
• United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, ASEAN’s Kao Kim Hourn, and leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam are joining an expanded Southeast Asian contingent.
• Talks are expected to cover the war in Ukraine and Iran–Israel tensions, with Beijing positioning the forum as a venue for dialogue.
• China is reviving its long-stalled proposal for an SCO Development Bank as analysts caution that consensus and governance concerns could slow progress.
• A major military parade in Beijing on Wednesday will feature advanced weapons and more than 100 aircraft, with Kim Jong Un, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian attending while leaders of India, Egypt and Turkey depart beforehand.