What India’s attendance at SCO summit means

The 2025 Tianjin Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit may have been the largest gathering of world leaders under the SCO umbrella, but that was not why it received attention from the West. The mere image of the leaders of Russia, India and China in one frame triggered not just headlines in the Western media but found their way to the social media account of U.S. President Donald Trump, who immediately declared that “India is lost!” The general punditry was quick to conclude that the downturn in U.S.-India relations in the preceding weeks had pushed India into the arms of China and — even more worryingly from a Western point of view — Russia. These simplistic reactions are symptomatic of a deeper problem. The world is on edge about what tomorrow will bring. Actions of certain countries and their leaders have rarely been under closer scrutiny, reflecting nervousness among established powers about their ability to preserve the status quo and suspicion of others’ intentions. The fact is that India has been a member of the SCO since 2017 and has been attending the summit sWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times