The Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his opening speeches on September 1, 2025 at the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjin.
Evelyn Cheng
Tianjin, China – The Chinese President Xi Jinping asked the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Monday to strengthen cooperation with artificial intelligence and at the same time to reject what he described as the “mentality of the Cold War”.
XI spoke on the biggest summit of the SCO so far. In Tianjin, more than 20 foreign guides, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The meeting takes place when China, as a global peace pent, wants to have an impact on the background of persistent trade voltages with the United States, the Russian war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict against the War of Russia.
XI said China invested 84 billion US dollars in other SCO countries and supported 10,000 students to contribute to Beijing's “Luban” -professional education program. He added that the SCO assembly offers the opportunity to draw a new phase of high-quality development and cooperation.
Before his remarks, XI briefly gathered with Modi and Putin during a photo session with all SCO members.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Front L) speaks to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) and Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 1, 2025 during the SCO summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
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XI is expected to meet Putin this week. The Russian leader should remain in Beijing since the end of the Second World War in China.
At the weekend, XI scored at least 10 leaders of the visitors, including the purifying President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Manet. On Saturday he met Modi, with both sides the importance of the partner, not as rivals, confirmed according to official advertisements.
“A stable relationship and cooperation between India and China and its 2.8 billion peoples based on mutual respect, mutual interest and mutual sensitivity are necessary for growth and development of the two countries,” said the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a declaration.
Global Peacemaker?
Although it remains unclear whether the SCO summit will pave the way for breakthroughs in the relaxation of tensions, analysts said that China's Détente could contribute to strengthening Beijing's influence.
“Improving relationships with India is a big deal. It enables India to access highly critical intellectual property that it takes to industrialize and promote production,” said Marko Papic, chief strategist of the Geomacro Strategy BCA Access.
“In the long term, the United States loses the propaganda fight to paint China as the error maker. And that only hurls the multipolarity,” he said.
The participants of the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization 2025 for photos in the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center on September 1, 2025 in Tianjin, China.
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China has taken both “initiative” for economic cooperation and peace, said Henry Huiyao Wang, founder and president of the Think Tank Center for China and globalization based in Beijing. He also pointed out to China and India's efforts to rebuild ties and hoped that India and Pakistan would do the same.
“[U.S.] President Trump tries to make a lot of peace, but I think we could do the same with the help of China, “said Wang on Monday about CNBCs” The China Connection “.
“China could use his good relationships with Russia to help [broker] The deal for the Russian war in Ukraine, ”said Wang, adding that the SCO or members such as China and India could act as a security guarantee.
The SCO summit could cause China to build better relationships with a number of countries, Papic said.
The SCO leaders signed a “Tianjin declaration” and, according to the Chinese state media, approved a development plan for the organization for the next decade by 2035. Details of the text were not immediately available, although the report said that members passed 24 documents to strengthen cooperation in relation to security, economy and “humanity”.
China will also set up cooperation platforms for new energy, green industry and digital economy as well as centers for technical innovation, university education and vocational training, XI said during a session on Monday afternoon.
Later a day, China's top diplomat Wang Yi said that the leaders of the SCO Development Bank agreed. He threw the financial institution as another multilateral bank. China has headed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which is headquartered in Beijing.
“The global government must not be achieved through coordination and cooperation, not through one -sided bullying,” said Wang in Mandarin, according to an official English translation, when he asked a question about the Global Governance Initiative.
New “Global Governance Initiative”
The opening speech of XI during the meeting on Monday afternoon included a proposal for a “Global Governance Initiative”, without further details.
Similar programs followed that XI has announced in recent years, such as the “Global Development Initiative” and “Global Security Initiative”. At the end of July, the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang announced that the country presented an AI cooperation organization.
“The mentality, hegemonism and protectionism in the Cold War remain:” New threats and challenges only increase. “
“Global Governance has come to a new intersection,” he said, and called “the commitment to peaceful coexistence” without focusing on third parties.
In connection with the uniform application of the international rule of law, the Chinese president said: “The rules of some fewer countries should not be imposed on others”.
– Victoria Yeo from CNBC contributed to this report