Trump’s Iran War Sets Test for Xi and Putin’s Security Club
President Donald Trump’s intensifying economic campaign against Iran is testing the limits of the security grouping Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have spent years expanding as a counterweight to US power.
The intensifying economic campaign waged by the United States against Iran is putting the security alliance forged by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin to the test. For the first time since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran commenced, the Chinese, Russian, and Iranian presidents will convene at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan.
This summit, which begins on Monday, will also see participation from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders from Central Asian nations, Pakistan, and Belarus. According to Henry Wang Huiyao, the founder of the Center for China and Globalization research group in Beijing, a new security bloc is clearly emerging, signaling the decline of the once-unipolar world dominated by the United States.
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