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Al Jazeera
Politics
Erin Hale

US trade war, India-China ties loom large at SCO summit in Tianjin

China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for a signing ceremony during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, in 2018 [Aly Song/Reuters]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are among the more than 20 world leaders attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, which is now the world’s largest regional grouping by population.

The Beijing-backed bloc will convene on Sunday and Monday in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, bringing together a diverse range of power brokers from across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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