SCO summit showcases Asian solidarity

The Russian president was received warmly in China and the West’s attempts to push the “diplomatic and economic isolation of Russia” on the rest of the world failed miserably

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) summit showed a united Asia standing up and brushing away the Western attempts to dictate to other countries, Le Figaro wrote.

The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping showcased a united stance, showing complete disdain for all Western attempts to browbeat the South.

The Russian president was received warmly in China, and the West’s attempts to push the “diplomatic and economic isolation of Russia” on the rest of the world failed miserably. PM Modi too was received with same warmth as if the Galwan clash had not occurred.

The reality is that the big three of the four pole multi polar World along with the developing countries in Asia used the Tianjin summit to show a huge gesture of disdain to the West. All of them refused to shun Russia as have the self centred Western countries.

As per the newspaper Columnist, even if not all of them completely back Russia’s position on the conflict in Ukraine, their leaders listened to Putin attentively all the same. “They insist that the West has no right to tell Russia what to do,” Girard noted, adding that Asian countries remember how the West tore Kosovo away from Serbia in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and its military operations in Iraq and Libya.

Donald Trump’s attempt to ratchet up a futile pressure on India by means of raising tariffs to make it halt Russian oil purchases just dramatized the clownish attempt of Trump for all to see.

This measure failed flat as Prime Minister Narendra Modi nonchalantly increased the volume of oil purchase.

Moreover, it only ensured thawing up of the frosty India -China relationship, as PM Modi made a trip to that country for the first time in the past seven years.

“Like all leaders of the ‘global South,’ Asian leaders refuse to tolerate the West’s desire to teach them what’s right and accompany these moral lessons with economic sanctions, pretending that it still controls global financial circles,” he stated.

Ukrainian conflict

It is absolutely inapt of the Europeans, who are bogged down in their self created Ukrainian conflict, to moralize with Asian countries in a bid to get them to stop supporting Russia because this may have an opposite effect. “But on the other hand, they cannot afford to award victory to Russia after investing so much, both economically and politically, to defend Ukraine, which came under aggression,” noted Grirard
It is critically important for Europe to uphold the strategic achievements of this conflict, with one of them being “turning the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake” following Finland and Sweden’s accession to the alliance.

Apart from that, in his words, Europe wants to “avoid Ukraine’s military collapse” and ramp up its military presence in countries bordering Russia to secure itself against alleged Russian aggression. However, such a scenario is highly improbable, Girard argued.