Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping are due to meet on Wednesday at a summit of a Eurasian security and defence club seen by Moscow and Beijing as an instrument to counter the influence of the US and its allies. Putin and the Chinese president have expanded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a club founded in 2001 with Russia and China, to include India, Iran and Pakistan as a counterweight to the West. Putin is holding a series of bilateral meetings on Wednesday on the sidelines of the July 34 SCO summit in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the Kremlin said.

Source: Reuters

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