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An army vehicle moves past a welcoming billboard with portraits of China's Premier Li Qiang, center, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari, displayed along a road leading to the venue of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan hosts a major security meeting this week as it struggles against rising insurgent violence

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands as they pose for photos during their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (Sergey Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Leaders of Russia, China attend summit of regional security grouping

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs Russian President Vladimir Putin before their meeting in New Delhi, India, Oct. 5, 2018. Putin will participate on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security grouping founded by Russia and China to counter Western alliances from East Asia to the Indian Ocean. This year’s event is hosted by India, which became a member in 2017. It's the latest avenue for Modi to showcase the country’s growing global clout. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Putin says Russia is ‘united as never before’ at meeting of Russia-China led security group

By Ashok Sharma and Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, gestures while speaking to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept. 16, 2022. Putin will this week participate in his first multilateral summit since an armed rebellion rattled Russia. Analysts say his participation at a virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Tuesday is an opportunity to show he is in control after a short-lived insurrection by Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin will speak with leaders of China and India in his first summit since the Wagner insurrection

By Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

Workers give final touches to the media center set up for the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) council of foreign ministers, in Goa, India, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. The meeting of the SCO ministers Friday in India's picturesque state of Goa is the latest avenue for the host nation to burnish its geopolitical credentials as it seeks to cement itself as a consequential global player. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Russia unlikely to face criticism at Central Asian meeting

By Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, third left, walks with other officials toward his plane to depart for India, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, May 4, 2023. Bhutto departs for India to attend the meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization's foreign ministers being held in neighboring India's state of Goa. (Pakistan Foreign Ministry via AP)

India to talk with China, Russia before Central Asia meeting

By Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The pursuit of alliances: The SCO and China’s Central Asia diplomacy

By Jianli Yang

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China’s Xi calls for effort to prevent ‘color revolutions’

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In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi attends a live televised interview with state-run TV, at the presidency office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP) **FILE**

Iran angling for invite to Chinese-led security pact after years of waiting

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province Sunday, June 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

The Latest: Putin says G-7 criticism of Russia is ‘chatter’

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Soldiers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 6th Armored Division carry the Chinese type 97 semiautomatic machine guns at their military base on the outskirts of Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

Inside China: A Shanghaied Exercise

By Miles Yu

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) meet on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The man in the middle was not identified. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

PIPES: Trading Europe for the Shanghai Five

By Daniel Pipes

Illustration China in Afghanistan by John Camejo for The Washington Times

PANTUCCI AND PETERSEN: China in Afghanistan

By Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen

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Putin floats idea of former Soviet nations forming bloc

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Kyrgyzstan says alliance not aimed at U.S.

U.S. warned about Central Asia

Group lacks seat for U.S.