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As is all too often the case, we've seen much commentary of the optics of Xi, Modi and Putin get-together in Tianjin, but almost no-one spent the time analyzing the actual output of their discussion.
Which is a shame because that's the real consequential stuff.
As a reminder, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - which annual summit was the occasion for their gathering - is the world's largest regional organization.
Many people don't realize this but the SCO is even (slightly) bigger than BRICS+: the combined GDP PPP of the 27 SCO countries is $82.28 trillion (39.8% of the world's GDP PPP) vs $82.06 trillion (39.7%) for the 10 BRICS+ members.
Economically speaking, that makes the SCO 40% larger than the entire G7. And I'm not even speaking about population (SCO countries gather 46% of the world’s population) or geographic scope (SCO countries cover 24% of the world’s total area and an incredible 65% of Eurasia).
In other words, when these countries get together and agree on fundamental matters of global governance - as they did in Tianjin - you better be paying attention as structural realities mean that it's probably far more consequential for our collective future than whatever gets said at G7 summits or in some European resort town.
Which is why it's so outrageous this gets virtually no coverage in the West, except for comic book-level analysis like "bad guys want to do bad things" (a headline by Sky News - news.sky.com/story/china-su - literally read "China summit has been called 'axis of upheaval' - and that feels right when you look at guest list," that's the type of analysis we're dealing with).
And which is also why I wrote an article analyzing in detail the actual primary sources from Tianjin, including the 6,000+ word 'Tianjin Declaration' signed by all SCO members in which they detail the principles under which they want to reform global governance.
I also examined Xi Jinping's two speeches at the Summit, in which he notably unveiled China's "Global Governance Initiative" - a framework that directly addresses the architecture of international relations itself.
This is the link to my article, entitled "What did Xi, Modi and Putin really discuss in Tianjin?": open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert
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