The leaders of China, Russia, and India tried over the weekend to signal their unity at the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), even as strong differences remain among the three powerful nations. The New York Times reports that “China wants to seize on the unpopularity of America’s trade policy to drive a wedge between Washington and the rest of the world, arguing that it can serve as a more stable global leader.” It is no surprise that Russian leader Vladimir Putin continues to sidle up to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he has leaned in that direction for many years, no doubt spurred along by the Democratic Party’s hysteria campaign to poison U.S./Russia relations with its Trump collusion hoax. While Mr. Modi made no mention of his country’s increasingly cooperative relations with both China and Russia in his formal remarks to the SCO’s planning committee, his engagements with both Putin and Xi during the rest of the event created speculation that he may be moving towards a higher degree of cooperation with India’s fellow BRICS members as his government remains entangled in trade and tariff disputes with the Donald Trump administration.
Author: David Blackmon
Published at: 2025-09-03 20:59:53
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