Leaders from more than a dozen countries, including Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi and Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian, gathered in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a group billed as a counterweight to US influence.
Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping began talks Monday in Kyrgyzstan, where a dozen other heads of state also gathered for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which seeks to be a counterbalance to the West.
