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.
Nothing is more remarkable at the SCO summit than the sudden, burgeoning relationship between Xi and Modi. They have been unwittingly propelled into one another’s embrace by US President Donald Trump, and are creating an alliance that shreds three decades of American efforts to lure Delhi into Washington’s corner.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a ceremony to welcome heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China on Sunday (Photo; Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)But Trump’s lumbering, clumsy handling of the bilateral relationship with New Delhi has consigned all of that to history’s ash-heap, and created an opportunity for India and China to bury their own hatchets.
Leaders and officials attend a photo ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit (Photo: Alexander Kazakov/ Sputnik Reuters)
By 2014, with Modi elected to power in Delhi, the US would even reverse a decade-long travel ban imposed on him over “severe violations of religious freedom” during sectarian riots in 2002, when he served as Gujarat’s Chief Minister.
Modi’s currency in Washington continued rising during the Biden presidency. India served as a cornerstone of “The Quad”, a revived grouping alongside the US, Australia and Japan that sought – in Biden’s words – to play “a defining role in the region” countering Chinese expansionism. India became such a trusted ally that only last year Washington approved Delhi’s request to purchase $4 billion (£3bn) of MQ-9B Reaper drones, as well as joint production of fighter jet engines that are considered some of America’s most sensitive military technology.
Modi meets Xi Jinping in Tianjin, China on Sunday (Photo: Press Information Bureau (PIB) / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)Then, to the grave irritation of Modi, Trump personally claimed credit for brokering a truce after a flare-up in tensions between Indian and Pakistani forces in the disputed region of Kashmir. Trump’s race to declare on social media that he had negotiated a “full and immediate ceasefire”, took Delhi by surprise, with Modi insisting the Americans played no role in negotiations. Pakistan, by contrast, nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Modi is now voting with his feet. He has reportedly refused to take Trump’s calls since June, and instead has raced headlong to mend fences with China. In Tianjin on Sunday, the two leaders pledged to resolve lingering territorial disputes over their own bilateral border, and to seize the opportunity to remind Washington of the enormous market that exists for two-way trade between them.
Also in Tianjin for the summit was a host of other figures eager to upend the rules-based international system. Putin was warmly welcomed, along with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. More than 20 heads of state are there, sending a clarion message to Washington: that while Americans are marking the end of the summer season with a holiday weekend, their country’s hegemony on the world stage is coming to an end.
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