Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Qin Gang, left, talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Panaji, India, on Thursday. Photo: AP“With more than 40 percent of the world’s population within the SCO, our collective decisions will surely have a global impact,” he said. Russia and China founded the SCO in 2001 as a counterweight to US alliances across East Asia to the Indian Ocean. Russia and China have sought to reduce the dominance of what they see as US and Western-led global institutions and alliances, and China accuses Washington of attempting to contain its economic and military rise. “Victims of terrorism do not sit together with perpetrators of terrorism to discuss terrorism,” Jaishankar told the briefing.
