War is raging in Europe but ties continue to be forged in the East.
On Thursday and Friday, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is meeting for a summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan's second city.
These founding members, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, will all be present, accompanied by India and Pakistan, which joined the alliance in 2016, and Iran, integrated in 2021. This year , two exceptional guests will also be there: the Turkish presidents, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Azerbaijani presidents, Ilham Aliyev, in a very tense context with Armenia.
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This summit is an event in at least two ways.
First, this is President Xi Jinping's first trip outside China, who went to Kazakhstan before heading to Uzbekistan to attend the summit and meet Vladimir Putin in particular.
Then, the SCO represents the largest regional alliance in the world, the second on a planetary scale behind…
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