Xi raises ‘universal security’ mission for SCO as Putin, Modi meet in Kyrgyzstan

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation should take on a bigger global role in technology and security, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, describing the Eurasian bloc as having vast potential. At the SCO’s summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Xi said the group had shown “strong vitality” since emerging a quarter of a century ago amid the “sobering lessons of the Cold War”. In a veiled reference to Washington’s system of military alliances, Xi said a key lesson from the bloc’s 25 years of...