Xi and Putin take swipe at West during China’s regional summit
Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin took turns Monday to swipe at the West during a gathering of Eurasian leaders aimed at putting Beijing front and centre of regional relations.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)touts itself as a non-Western style of collaboration between 10 countries in the region and seeks to be an alternative to traditional alliances.
Xi told leaders including Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the global situation was becoming more “chaotic and intertwined”.
The Chinese leader also slammed “bullying behaviour” from certain countries – a veiled reference to the United States.
“The security and development tasks facing member states have become even more challenging,” he said in his address in the northern port city of…
