Can China’s hopes that Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will offer new model for international relations come to pass?

China has high hopes that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will come to represent what foreign policy chief Wang Yi has called a “new type of international relations”.

But while the bloc has expanded its role and membership since its formation as Eurasian security bloc in 2001, many diplomatic analysts say it still holds little sway on global issues, including the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.