Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a screen at the media centre during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Tianjin on Sept 1, 2025. - AFP
TIANJIN: Russia and Belarus presidents joined two dozen Eurasian leaders on Monday (Sept 1) at a ceremony hosted by China's Xi Jinping, on the final day of a showpiece summit aimed at putting Beijing front and centre of regional relations.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit kicked off on Sunday in the northern port city of Tianjin, days before a massive military parade in the capital Beijing to mark 80 years since the end of World War II.
