Washington DC – As Americans fire up their barbeques this Labor Day holiday, few will divert their attention from the hamburgers sizzling on the grill, and pause to reflect upon events a world away in the Chinese city of Tianjin.

But in every way, the meeting there of the Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation (SCO) hosted by President Xi Jinping and attended this year by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Turkey, Iran and Belarus, is the harbinger of a new, dramatic chapter in global affairs.

Xi told his visitors on Sunday that the SCO now bore “greater responsibilities” for keeping regional peace in the midst of a “fluid and chaotic” international situation. “The world today is swept by once-in-a-century transformations”, claim

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