By Laurie Chen and Mei Mei Chu
TIANJIN (Reuters) -China will work with all events within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to take the regional safety discussion board to a brand new degree, Chinese language President Xi Jinping mentioned on Monday, unveiling his ambition for a brand new world safety order that poses a problem to the US.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has set a mannequin for a brand new sort of worldwide relations, Xi mentioned in opening remarks addressing greater than 20 world leaders at a two-day summit held in northern China’s Tianjin, including that the discussion board unequivocally opposed exterior interference.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Indian President Narendra Modi and different leaders from Central Asia, the Center East, South Asia and Southeast Asia attended the opening ceremony in a significant present of World South solidarity.
Xi spoke about constructive participation in worldwide affairs, opposing hegemonism and energy politics, in addition to selling multilateralism in his remarks.
The safety-focused bloc, which started as a bunch of six Eurasian nations, has expanded to 10 everlasting members and 16 dialogue and observer nations lately.
(Reporting by Laurie Chen and Mei Mei Chu in Tianjin; Writing by Liz Lee; Modifying by Christopher Cushing and Lincoln Feast.)