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A spokesperson for Beijing's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was "neither reasonable nor realistic" to expect China to participate in the discussions.

The upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin, China, from August 31 to September 1, will be the organisation’s largest gathering of heads of state to date. It comes at a time when the existing liberal international order is rapidly disintegrating. But rather than offering a concrete…

Muriel Bowser says she and the president did not talk about his possible plan to extend federal takeover, which would need congressional approval

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit China’s Tianjin on August 31 for a summit meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. His last visit to China was in 2018 for the SCO Summit in Qingdao. 

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