China-Russia Relationship on Display at SCO Summit

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The most prominent events this week: Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit Beijing approaches, Beijing is preparing to host a Military processionAnd Trump wears the Chinese Student visas.
Welcome to Foreign policyChina’s summary.
The most prominent events this week: Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit Beijing approaches, Beijing is preparing to host a Military processionAnd Trump wears the Chinese Student visas.
China’s links Russia are displayed in Sco Summit
During the weekend, China hosted 20 foreign leaders in Tianjin for the Scheghai Cooperation Organization Summit (SCO), seeking to send a message from the unit between its allies and its partners, unlike the United States’ attacks on its friends, Donald Trump.
It was only about half of the leaders present from the official Sco members; The rest were partners or observers. Regardless of the three adults – China, India and Russia – SCO membership is suggested towards Central Asia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, when both leaders made statements that emphasized Western perseverance. But despite all happiness and photographic lines, there is still essential tension between Russia and China in Sco.
In addition to economic cooperation, Sco regularly carries military exercises, and is usually described as combating terrorism efforts. An unimportant purpose of these activities is a rehearsal to suppress the local rebellions with the help of foreign forces – as Russia did in Kazakhstan in January 2022.
China and Russia play the main role in these exercises, as Beijing often includes units of the popular armed police, a paramilitary force used primarily for local repression. But before 2022, Russia was considered the primary security sponsor of the region – a situation that he tried to maintain after the collapse of the Soviet Union – while China’s role was essentially economical.
The problem for Russia is that China has become a more logical security guarantor. Since its widespread invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has spent three and a half years besieged in a war that was supposed to take weeks. Moreover, Russia has proven ineffective in protecting its agents Armenia during the recent brief struggle with Azerbaijan in 2023.
Despite the success of Russia’s intervention in 2022 in Kazakhstan, it harmed the public image in Moscow in the country. Astana did not show any gratitude: When Russia invaded Ukraine the following month, Kazakh leaders refused to recognize Russian regional demands in Ukraine.
Autocrates in Central Asia is now more appreciated by Beijing’s needs from Moscow. Despite the general anger at the treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang, the states of the Central Asia have managed to prefer through garbage over the alternating activity in Ouigor, in what was likely to be in support of some of its citizens from Chinese detention camps. On the other hand, these same cases took a much lighter hand on pro -public activity.
China has sought to sell not only the economic relationship but also monitoring and security guarantees along the alleged silk economic belt, which are the Central Asia roads that are part of the Beijing Belt initiative and its roads.
However, China’s ability to protect other countries has not been tested relatively in recent decades – and its historical record with its partners and allies is essential. Its interference in the Korean war was very important to save North Korea, but it failed to protect its “iron brother” Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh war; It was invaded by Vietnam in 1979 a failed catastrophe.
None of this means that the division between China and Russia is imminent or even probably, despite the imaginations around it that appear periodically in Washington. In his meeting with Xi, Putin described the relations between Chinese Russia as “an unprecedented high level.” Although Russia may not be comfortable as a young partner in the relationship, it now does not have any better options.
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World War II offer. In the aftermath of the Sco Summit, there is a huge military parade in Beijing on Wednesday to celebrate the eighty anniversary of China’s victory over Japan in World War II. As Chinese dissident Deng Yunin writes, the show is a diplomatic offer as much as it is a military parade, but it is also looking to send local messages.
In the doctrine of the Communist Party of China (CCP), the Greatness of the Popular Liberation Army (PLA) stems from all of its defense of China against the external aggressors and its role guarantees security and peace at home.
The broad ways in which Shi who would see the soldiers who suffer from interlocking alleys were rebuilt in the 1950s to allow the army to enter the city’s heart easily and put out the rebellion. Since 1989, PLA has maintained a large presence in Chinese cities, with many barracks across Beijing with forces operating as a protective force.
But the relationship between the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and CCP is not clear because when the party was divided, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army had often taken side. In the early years of the cultural revolution, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army was used to crush the Red Guard – the extremist extremists who interrogated the call of leader Mao Zidong for violence – when the party was concerned that they went out of control.
In 1976, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army conspired with Hua Gujoongy, Khalifa Mao in the end, to cleanse the extremist Muawiyah gang of four after Mao’s death. This date is the reason why there are many rumors of a military coup against Shi. To clarify, these allegations are not submitted and almost certain that they are incorrect. But they represent the hope of some Chinese who are concerned about the direction that something has taken in the country.
In this sense, something will not be sent in the show just a message to foreigners; He will indicate that, undoubtedly, it controls the army – and it is a reminder that the force in China is still dependent on the barrel of the gun.
Flip-Flop visa. After the Trump administration announced plans in May “strongly” canceling the visas of Chinese students, the president has since changed the path as he is looking for a high -level meeting with eleventh. The White House pledged to issue 600,000 Chinese student visas over the next two years, and last Friday, Trump defended the decision as “the right thing to do.”
The news, which prompted an immediate violent reaction from Laura Lomer and other characters associated with Maga. There is a strong opportunity for Trump to return to the anti -Shien and abandoning these policies if he cannot find a common ground with eleventh.
Even if the American visa policy in reality becomes more generous, Chinese students and parents are well aware of the government -led campaign against immigrants in the United States, and like other international students, they are already looking elsewhere.
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Technology and business
Soybeans are drowned. US soybean sales to China – the world’s largest market for the crop – this year as a result of the short but intense trade war. China has already adopted more relations with the Brazil’s main soy gauge product and is now determining most of its needs from there.
The China axis forces prices to decline for American farmers and contribute to a quiet agricultural crisis in the United States, as the tariffs and the destruction of the US Agency for International Development Producers. Food security is a priority for the Chinese government, and it is unlikely that China will return to the United States for soybeans unless the relationship improves.
Video game sequences. The huge Chinese video game last year Black Legend: Wonding It will become a series of games that include other favorite characters of Chinese myths. The following repetition will follow Chung Koy, a Dawi deity that is largely associated with compensation for evil spirits (one day as a basis for Chinese religious practice and a basic part of popular entertainment).
Chinese censorship is usually skeptical of religious or magic imaging, but firm myths get a pass. Black legendHis success was largely locally, although the game received high signs of foreign auditors. The success of the game has already inspired the minimum imitation.
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2025-09-02 21:33:00