The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjing, followed by the great military parade in the Tiananmen Plaza de Beijing, was optics and signaling.
Looking at the US reaction and the EU, it would be safe to say that the messages hit Bull’s eye.
But first let’s see closer to home. Before the summit, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of India, Vikram Misri, said that India would seek a categorical condemnation of cross -border terrorism, which in common language means that India’s accusations against Pakistan are maintained.
You May recall in This column Last Week, There Was A Mention of the Sco Principle of Collective or Indivisible Security and Once Again That Was Upheld as Both The Pahalgam Terror Incident and The Jaffar Express and The Khuzdar School Bus Terror Attacks, In Which Many Innocent Lives Were with India Baming Pakistan for the first and Pakistan Saying India was responsible for the second and third incidents – Were Condemned But Neither Country was appointed.
Despite the lack of success on this issue, as in the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the OCs in June, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, was triumphantly taken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and laughed in videos captured from his talks with the strong man of China Xi Jinping.
China may not be militarily as strong as the United States, but seems to be updated quickly.
Well -informed sources suggested that Modi was anxious to thumb his nose to the United States and his “unreliable” leader and his former friend, President Donald J. Trump, whom he has courted in the past, even raising the slogan, before the US elections: Abki Baar, Trump Sarkar (The next administration will be Trump’s).
India is intelligent in ‘unfair’ 25+25 percent rates, and the latter is punitive for continuous purchases of Russian oil when China and many other countries have not been penalized for their acquisition of oil/ energy in Russia’s bulk. But the size of the Indian economy in rapid growth, its human capital and its huge market means that despite its current tribulations, India will not be ignored by the United States and its allies or the global south for a long time. That is a certainty.
When leaving the region to the global sand, it was clear that the summit and the parade pointed out what China sees as a return to a multipolar world and not at the unipolar disposition that evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union and facilitated the massive expansion to the east of the NATO military alliance.
The Russian military assault and the war that caused in Ukraine is attributed to that unipolar world, which initially meant that Moscow lacked the ability to stop the march east of the Western Military Alliance. Later, however, after internal consolidation, Russia began to flex his muscles first in Crimea and then in the Donbas region and made rapid advances in eastern Ukraine to avoid the greatest expansion of NATO.
President Joe Biden pumped billions of dollars to the ideological military campaign directly and through NATO members and slowed the rhythm of Russian progress. With the assumption of a Trump position, all that changed when the new president of the United States announced that he wanted to end the war and that his friend Vladimir Putin was on board. So far it seems that he was played by the Russian leader.
It was not surprising then that looking at the SCO summit and the great show exhibited by the people’s liberation army in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Chinese victory over the Japanese army, Trump wrote a congratulation message about his real social platform and then said words that could be compared to a child who is outside the toys: “Give my warmer relax Kim Jong, and Kim Jong, and Kim Jong Jong Asumia, An the United States of America. “
China’s response was measured when his spokesman stressed that commemoration was to mark the end of World War II and that foreign guests had been invited for it. China said that its development of diplomatic relations with any country is never aimed at a third party.
Trump’s designated politician as an ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker seemed to have lost it in an interview with Fox News When, in an attack of anger, he accused China of exhibiting lethal armament “with all stolen probability of us.”
The EU Foreign Policy Chief, the former right-wing Estonia policy, Kaja Kallas, also criticized the parade and said that Xi, Putin and Kim that appear together were part of the efforts to build a “new world order” anti-western and was a direct challenge for the international system based on rules.
China described the comments of an “official of a certain EU” as full of ideological bias, without basic historical knowledge and a shameless attempt to cause confrontation. Beijing found the wrong comments, completely irresponsible and arrogant.
It was ridiculous that the Chief of Foreign Policy of the Aggressive EU was referring to the international system based on rules when she and her group have supported the Gaza genocide and the crushing of any so -called rules based on rules by the state of apartheid daily for the mass murder of civilians for bombs, missiles, drones and stars.
For many impartial observers, China’s incredible military exhibition resulted in the introduction of a welcome equilibrium appearance in our unipolar world. China may not be militarily as strong as the United States, but it seems to be rapidly reached as its various arms and armaments, including new hypersonic missiles, stealthy combat bombers, lasers and microwave air defense and aerial military vehicles and unmanned submarines that are shown.
One expects this not to unleash Trump completely. He should realize that his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize was almost non -existent, because he gave him the green light and allowed Gaza’s genocide, a serious crime against humanity. Likewise, there is probably no end of the Ukraine War in unfavorable terms for Russia. Trump’s threatened tariffs and sanctions can cause pain, but not decisively.
It will be interesting to see the next White House movement.
The writer is a former Dawn editor.
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Posted in Dawn, September 6, 2025
