The diplomatic power set in eastern China, with leaders of China, Russia and India, the three largest forces outside the West, meeting smiling and united, aimed to emit multiple message of unity against Washington’s pressures.

The warm atmosphere between Si Jing and Vladimir Putin aimed to highlight their close bond as leaders of an alternative world class that challenges the United States. Monty, for his part, wanted to show that India has other important friends, including China, despite the ongoing border dispute, if the Trump government chooses to continue alienating New Delhi through duties.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping made an indirect level against the United States on Monday as he criticized “bullying practices” and presented his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump’s foreign policy “first”.

“The rules set by few countries should not be imposed on others,” Si said to more than 20 world leaders who gathered at a two -day session, designed to highlight China’s world leadership and its close and constant cooperation with Russia, as the two -year -olds, notes CNN in its analysis.

The Sangai Cooperation Assembly (SCO), backed by Beijing and Moscow, in the city-Limani Tiajin, northern China, is the most important diplomatic event of the year for China, attracting politicians of “heavyweight” such as Russian President Tayyip Erdogan.

At the Summit, Si pledged to grant 2 billion yuan ($ 280 million) to SCO member states in the year, as well as an additional 10 billion yuan ($ 1.4 billion) on loans to the SCO banking consortium.

“We need to take advantage of the power of our giant markets and the complementarity of Member States’ economies, improving the facilitation of trade and investment,” the Chinese leader said in his opening speech to his guests.

Later in the day, Si presented a brand new initiative on world governance, a continuation of his three previous “initiatives” on security, development and culture, which together make up a loose outline of his vision for a remodeling international order.

“I am looking forward to working with all countries for a fairer and equal system of global governance,” Si said, committing to reinforce the representation and voice of developing countries and implement the multilateral system, repeating its constant calls.

“We need to continue to tear down walls, not to raise them; to seek to integrate, not the disconnection,” he added.

Si’s vision is confronted with what Beijing considers the foundations of a world -leading world leadership, opposed to alliances such as NATO, which, in his view, exist to impose the Western “system -based system”, and challenging the concept of human rights, Organizations that he considers to be unjustly dominated by the West.

Without directly naming the United States, Si pledged to oppose “hegemony”, “Cold War mindset” and “bullying practices”, expressions that Beijing often uses to criticize Washington.

As Trump raises concern in countries with the World Trade War, which has launched, withdrawals from international organizations, cuts in foreign aid and threats through social networks, Beijing believes that the US is undermining the international order that has helped to build a way to build it.

“We need to support an equal and smooth multipolar system, as well as a globalization economically beneficial to all and without exclusion, in order to make the global governance system fairer and equal,” Si said in his inaugural speech.

Reflecting on Si’s words, Putin said that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization laid the foundations for a “new” security system in Eurasia, putting it as an alternative to the west-guided alliances, which it has criticized for years.

The new system “will replace the outdated Euro -centric and Euro -Atlantic models, take into account the interests of as many countries as possible, be truly balanced and will not allow some states to ensure their safety at the expense of others,” Putin said.

The close-up Putin-si-diming relationship

The meeting is a showcase for the closest links between China and Russia, as well as the friendship that their two authoritarian leaders have cultivated over the years.

The deep personal relationship between the two men appeared on Sunday night, when Si and his wife, Peng Liguan, had a formal reception dinner to the leaders who participated.

Footage published by the Russian State News Agency RIA showed Si and Putin chatting vigorously and smiling during the event, revealing a different side of the usually restrained Chinese leader and his warm and relaxed attitude towards him.

The Sangai Cooperation Organization’s meeting is also the first opportunity of the leaders to meet after Putin’s meeting with Trump in Alaska in August and takes place as Putin resists western pressures to end his attack on Ukraine.

Just last week, the Russian forces launched their second largest air attack to date in Ukraine.

On Monday, Putin took advantage of his speech at the SCO Summit to repeat his standing positions on the war in Ukraine, saying that the crisis “did not arise as a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine, but as a consequence of a coup in Ukraine.”

The Russian leader praised China and India’s efforts to facilitate the resolution of the crisis and described the “understanding agreement” achieved with Trump at Alaska’s meeting as “the opening of the road to peace in Ukraine”.

“During the bilateral meetings scheduled for today and tomorrow, I will, of course, inform my colleagues in more detail and thoroughly about the results of the negotiations in Alaska,” Putin said, adding that he had already informed Si “in detail” at Sunday’s lunch.

Observers said the Russian leader would take advantage of the meeting to show that he was not alone on the international stage.

“Putin will seek to present Russia’s resilience and China’s support as proof that western sanctions and isolation did not work,” says Lee Mingjiang, an associate professor at the S. Rajaratnam International Studies School before Singapore.

“At the same time, it will try to deepen strategic convergence with Beijing, especially to ensure the Chinese supply of dual -use goods and equipment to Russia and to show that Moscow has strong partners even when Washington enlarges its pressure.”

War in Ukraine is moving over the session

China has emerged as a basic pillar of diplomatic and financial support of Putin’s first days of the invasion of Ukraine, even if it claims that it remains neutral in the conflict.

Chinese companies have bought huge quantities of Russian oil at a discount and provided critical trade, including dual -use goods that, according to Western leaders, have supplied the Russian defense industry. Beijing defends cooperation as “normal trade” with Russia.

Trump, earlier in the summer, threatened to target this partnership, saying that China could face large duties on its products if it continued to buy fuel from Russia while faking war.

However, although the US has imposed such sanctions in India last week, they have so far been delayed their implementation to Beijing, as they seek a wider trade agreement with China.

The impressive 50% duty imposed by Trump in India has burdened his relations with Monty and has accelerated a cowardly but emerging approach between New Delhi and Beijing.

The Indian leader met with SI on Sunday, on his first visit to China for seven years, and the two countries are confronted with harsh US duties and western criticism of their relations with Russia.

On Monday, Monty underlined his ties with both his host and the Russian leader at the SCO Summit, embracing Putin before the two walk hand in hand to greet SI. There was a brief conversation in a warm climate, with smiles and laughs.

Monti and Putin also held an almost hourly meeting in the limousine of the Russian Presidency, Aurus, while heading for their official talks, according to Russian state media.

“India and Russia have always stood side by side even in the most difficult times,” Monty said at the beginning of the meeting. “We are in constant dialogue on the situation in Ukraine. We welcome all recent efforts to peace. “

Announcement by the Indian Foreign Ministry said the two leaders discussed the latest developments in Ukraine. “Modi reiterated his support for recent initiatives taken to tackle the conflict in Ukraine and emphasized the need to expedite the cessation of hostilities and find a sustainable peacekeeping settlement,” the ministry said.

Observers say that Si sees the Summit and the Great Military Parade to host Wednesday in Beijing, which is expected to attend Putin, Kim Jong Un of North Korea as well as dozens of other leaders as a diplomatic boost.

Chinese officials have held this year’s SCO meeting as the largest to date, stating before the event that 20 leaders from all over Asia and the Middle East will participate. In addition to Russia, China and India, SCO members are also Iran, Pakistan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.