Summit in Tianjin: Putin and XI are calling for new world order at the summit in China

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s head of state XI Jinping have campaigned at the Shanghaier Organization for Cooperation (SOZ) for a world order without dominance from the United States and Europe. The Eurocentric and Euro-Atlantic model survived, Putin told the heads of state and government present in Tianjin in Chinese. XI called for a mentality of the Cold War to reject block confrontations and harassment. It is also necessary to see the Shanghaier organization, which sees itself as a political counterweight to western alliances such as NATO and the EU.

XI and Putin have long been calling for a “multipolar world order”. Above all, they mean a world order away from a guided tour of the United States. China strives for more influence in the global south and presents itself with investment initiatives, such as the “new Seidenstrasse”, as alternatives to western partners.

Dominated by leaders of authoritarian states

The SOZ was founded 24 years ago as an organization for the fight against terrorism and for economic cooperation. In the meantime, her ten states are part of her, including founding countries such as Russia, China and Kazakhstan also India, Pakistan and Iran since 2023 and Belarus since 2024. The SOZ is dominated by leaders of authoritarian systems that are also criticized internationally due to human rights violations.

XI proposes new initiative

As the “biggest highlight” of the summit Pries China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the initiative for Global Government (GGI) brought up by XI. “The monopoly of global governance of a few countries must not go on,” he says. Regardless of their size, all countries would have a right to take part in international affairs, he said. According to XIS, the initiative should promote multilateralism and generate real action – it did not become more specific at first.

Xi emphasized the success of the Shanghaier organization, including cooperation against terrorism and investments in industry. According to him, the members of the organization together reach an annual economic output of almost $ 30 trillion (25.6 trillion euros). XI also announced 2 billion yuan (almost 239.5 million euros) in help for SOZ members.

Modi and Putin hold hands

According to XI’s opening speech, other heads of state and government spoke, including Iran’s President Massud Peseschkian and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The SOZ members also signed a joint explanation. In it they spoke out against economic trade constraints and sentenced the attacks of Israel and the United States to Iran in June and the terrorist attack of April 22nd in Kashmir, which was controlled by India. The Russian attack war against Ukraine was not mentioned.

Russia’s President Putin hit Modi on the edge. The Indian demanded an end to the Ukraine War. Putin did not respond to the war in his publicly made statements, but emphasized the good and close cooperation. Videos showed Putin and modes hand in hand through the conference hall in front of the ceremony. After the following meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Putin assumes that Turkey will continue to be asked as a hostess of Russian-Ukrainian discussions.

Between dispute and cooperation

The day before and a day before the start of the summit, XI led with the first head of state and government of the more than 20 announced summit participants states as well as organizational confidence such as UN Secretary-General António Guterres. From this, the Chinese side mostly published demands for more cooperation between the states. In conversation with Modi, however, it was also about a smoldering border conflict for decades, which had severely affected the relationships between the two most populous countries in the world in recent years.

In a banquet for state guests on Sunday evening (local time), XI said that the world experiences changes as it has not been in a century, with significant instability and uncertainty. The SOZ is even greater responsibility for the maintenance of peace and stability in the region, he emphasized.

Last but not least, the SOZ plays the battered relationship of many countries with the USA in the dispute over tariffs. US President Donald Trump had recently doubled the surcharges for imports from India to 50 percent. Washington justified this with India’s oil transactions with Russia, which rinses money in Moscow’s cash register for the war of aggression in Ukraine. The visit Modis in China – the first in seven years – was therefore also seen as an approach to Beijing.

While Modi is leaving this Monday, Putin stays in China for several days to attend on Wednesday in the nearby Chinese capital Beijing with North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong and a military parade for the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan in World War II. Bilateral Russian-Chinese negotiations are also planned on Tuesday.