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Xi’s central Asia trip aims to cement ties as China vies for influence with Russia
SCO summit brings together leaders of global south but also likely to test Beijing and Moscow’s ‘strategic partnership’
Leaders from China, Russia and countries in the global south are gathering in Kazakhstan for the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a group that has been described as the “anti-Nato”.
The summit is part of China’s efforts to establish what it calls a “multilateral” world order that is not dominated by the US. But it is also a forum in which China and Russia’s “strategic partnership” will be tested by their competing desires to wield influence in central Asia.
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