Presidents Xi and Putin arrive in Kazakhstan | BBC News

well the leaders of Russia and China have arrived in Kazakhstan for a regional security Gathering president Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are in the kazak capital estana for the two-day meeting of the Shanghai cooperation organization now the annual event has been dominated by China and Russia as they seek to shape Regional developments since moscow’s invasion of Ukraine India Pakistan Iran and other Central Asian countries are also members of the group so let’s unpack some of this with Sergey enko he’s a professor of international relations at John’s Hopkins University uh thank you for your time now the language that came out of the summit last year had a lot to say about NATO uh about the war in Ukraine even if it didn’t reference it directly what do we expect the focus to be this year much of the same uh the grand proclamations of the Shanghai cooperation organizations do not really matter it’s one of the most inefficient organizations out there they don’t actually do much but what they do allow people to do is to have conversations so we are expecting uh Putin and Shi Jinping to meet on the sidelines of the summit also Eran from Turkey is there uh so it’s it’s going to be very interesting to observe what is being discussed but Ukraine is is probably going to be part of the uh conversation and Sega you mentioned re T erdogan there now he is a member of NATO so how does that work what are his goals when it comes to this Summit well I like to see Eran as representing NATO at this what is sometimes called dictators club uh however to uh you know Jokes Aside turkey has of course very serious interests in Central Asia and it’s natural that when Central Asia is discussed turkey wants to be at the or near the table um we also know that erdogan and Putin will meet uh to talk about Syria and uh uh Ukraine that’s according to um Putin’s uh foreign policy Aid now bellarus is also a new member uh this year so uh what how does that Advance the summit’s goals certainly China and Russia’s goals uh well it it doesn’t really I mean it was strange that Belarus was not part of that organization it was set up in 2001 with uh Central Asian States plus Russia and China and this was always seen as a place where Russia and China sort out their problems over Central Asia but I guess you know it was also called dictators club for the reason that all of the countries were uh effectively tyrannies that were part of that organization until India joined that as to say well now with lukashenka joining that seems to be part of the natural trend of countries like that to stick together and just taking a bit more of a wider look here you’ve been referring to it but when it comes to China and Russia could you tell us a bit more about how they’re trying to reshape that World Order well they have their Vision which is directed against the United States in the sense that they you know they’re pushing for what they call a multi-polar world order where their influence and their status is much greater uh and uh the this Regional organizations like shanhai cooperation organization is part of that Vision uh it but this is not to say that they agree on everything among themselves they are joined by a shared anti-American agenda but they also have certain tensions uh and certainly Central Asia is one of the places where they have those tensions all right Serge renko thank you so much uh for that analysis appreciate your time

The leaders of Russia and China have arrived in Kazakhstan for a regional security gathering.

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are in the Kazakh capital Astana for the two-day meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

The annual event has been dominated by China and Russia, as they seek to shape regional developments since Moscowโ€™s invasion of Ukraine.

Putin is also due to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the leaders of Azerbaijan, Mongolia and Pakistan before an informal dinner hosted by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

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  9. Russia and China should form a military alliance to deter the US and NATO from attacking them. In the last 4 years, NATO has moved from Europe to Asia. One would ask what they are doing there far from NATO country borders.

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