Commitment Tracker: What Xi Promised at SCO Summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping's keynote address at the SCO summit, as seen from the media center. Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP

This year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit will likely be remembered for its optics dominated by embullient hugs between China’s President Xi Jinping, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the launch of the Global Governance Initiative.

However, the event also marked several notable commitments, providing a glimpse of how China sees the SCO’s expanded role in a global landscape increasingly defined by large South/North gaps.

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