Is This a New World Order? (opens in new tab)

From August 31 to September 1, China hosted twenty foreign leaders in Tianjin for a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, the biggest meeting since the formation of the security group in 2002. Group photos of all the attendees and video and photos of Xi Jinping enjoying moments of bonhomie with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi “were not accidental but deliberate diplomatic theatre, a spectacle that will make Trump squirm” according to India’s ...