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SCO Summit 2025 highlights: PM Modi lands in Delhi after concluding China-Japan trip
SCO Summit 2025 highlights: PM Narendra Modi on Monday addressed the plenary session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit and spoke on terrorism as well as other key issues. Russian President Putin also delivered an address.
SCO Summit 2025 highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to India on Monday after concluding his visits to Japan and China. PM Modi landed in Japan on August 29 for a two-day visit, wherein he participated in the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit. The Prime Minister thereafter visited China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin.
...Read MoreDay 2 of the SCO Summit 2025 in China's Tianjin kicked off on Monday with powerful displays of bonhomie among global leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China and Russia Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, and strong messages sent out from their addresses.
PM Modi addressed the plenary session, touching on various subjects like cooperation and terrorism.
Summit Background
- The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit 2025 brings together major Eurasian leaders in Tianjin, China, with regional security, trade, and geopolitical alignments topping the agenda.
- This summit is especially significant amid ongoing global shifts, including US-China relations and heightened energy and trade discussions.
India-China Relations
- PM Modi was in Tianjin, marking his first visit to China in seven years.
- On the eve of the summit, Modi held a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping, focusing on improving ties through mutual trust and respect, and emphasising the need for border peace.
- This meeting builds on their previous encounter at the 2024 BRICS summit in Kazan.
India-Russia Cooperation
PM Modi held a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and trade, defence, and energy issues will be on the agenda.
- The two leaders discussed strengthening their partnership, recent global pressures over India’s Russian oil purchases, and Putin’s expected visit to India later this year
SCO Summit 2025 live: Xi Jinping says Asia and Europe drivers of human progress
Chinese President Xi Jinping says Asia and Europe are thedrivers of human progress.
SCO Summit 2025 live: Xi Jinping says China's trade with SCO countries over $2.3 trillion
Xi Jinping has said that China's cumulative trade with SCO countries stands at $2.3 trillion.
SCO Summit 2025 live: Xi Jinping says China will work with all parties to take the body to a new stage
Chinese President Xi Jingping said that his country will work with all parties in the SCO to take the body to a new stage
SCO Summit 2025 live: Xi Jinping says SCO made great contribution to upholding regional security
China's Xi Jinping starts summit attended by more than 20 world leaders, says SCO made great contribution to upholding regional security.
SCO Summit 2025 live: PM Modi-Xi SCO meet finds front page coverage in China Daily
The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit received significant coverage in China Daily, a top Chinese newspaper.
An article on the meeting featured on the front page of the daily with the headline: 'Partnership seen as key to Sino-Indian relations'. Read here.
SCO Summit 2025 live: Ex-diplomat says without "peace, tranquillity" at border, other aspects of the India-China relationship can't progress
Former Indian diplomat Veena Sikri has emphasised that peace and tranquillity along the India-China border remain fundamental to any meaningful progress in bilateral relations between the two nations, asserting that the trust deficit created by the 2020 Galwan incident has cast a long shadow over the diplomatic engagement.
Speaking to ANI on Sunday, Sikri noted that unless there is concrete progress in restoring stability at the border, other aspects of the bilateral relationship, including trade, regional cooperation, and people-to-people ties, cannot move forward.
SCO Summit 2025 live: India since its inclusion as a member
During its membership period, which began in 2017, India has held the chair of the SCO Council of Heads of Government in 2020 and of the SCO Council of Heads of State from 2022 to 2023.
SCO Summit 2025 live: How many members does the SCO have?
The SCO comprises 10 members. In addition to India, they include Belarus, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. There are also several dialogue partners and observers. India has been a member of the SCO since 2017, having been an observer since 2005.
SCO Summit 2025 live: China offers backing for Myanmar’s SCO membership bid
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to support Myanmar’s efforts to become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in his meeting with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing in Tianjin.
Xi spoke about “opposing foreign interference in Myanmar’s politics, China’s positive stance and future actions for the country’s stability and peace,” as well as follow-up talks on issues agreed upon during the two leaders’ meeting in Moscow in May, the National Defence and Security Council said in a statement.
SCO Summit 2025 live: PM Modi's talks with Xi Jinping
Earlier on Sunday, PM Modi held bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the SCO leaders' summit, during which both leaders welcomed the positive momentum and steady progress in bilateral relations since their last meeting in Kazan on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in October 2024.
SCO Summit 2025 live: PM Modi to hold bilateral talks with Vladimir Putin
PM Narendra Modi will hold bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit 2025 in Tianjin today.
SCO Summit 2025 live: PM Modi to address the planery session today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the planery session of the SEO summit in Tianjin today.
SCO Summit 2025 live: Setting the Stage for Asia’s Multipolar Future
The SCO Summit 2025 signals a new chapter for regional cooperation and global governance. Leaders from Eurasia meet today to strengthen ties and address global challenges.
