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Xi and Putin set out ambitions for Eurasian security club
https://www.reuters.com/world/xi-putin-set-out-ambitions-eurasian-security-club-2024-07-04/Xi and Putin set out ambitions for Eurasian security club
By Reuters
July 4, 2024 4:31 AM EDT Updated 2 hours ago
ASTANA, July 4 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged members of a regional security club on Thursday to resist external meddling, while President Vladimir Putin was due to speak about creating a new Eurasian security system at the group's annual meeting.
Putin and Xi have expanded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a club founded in 2001 with Russia, China and Central Asian nations, to include India, Iran and Pakistan as a counterweight to the West.
The group also represents the new key customers for Russian commodities including oil and gas, as Western economic sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine have forced Moscow to pivot towards Asia.
"In the face of the real risks of small yards with high fences, we must safeguard the right to development," Xi was quoted by Chinese state television CCTV as saying at the meeting in the Kazakh capital Astana.
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By Reuters
July 4, 2024 4:31 AM EDT Updated 2 hours ago
ASTANA, July 4 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged members of a regional security club on Thursday to resist external meddling, while President Vladimir Putin was due to speak about creating a new Eurasian security system at the group's annual meeting.
Putin and Xi have expanded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a club founded in 2001 with Russia, China and Central Asian nations, to include India, Iran and Pakistan as a counterweight to the West.
The group also represents the new key customers for Russian commodities including oil and gas, as Western economic sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine have forced Moscow to pivot towards Asia.
"In the face of the real risks of small yards with high fences, we must safeguard the right to development," Xi was quoted by Chinese state television CCTV as saying at the meeting in the Kazakh capital Astana.
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