Delegates at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation have adopted a joint statement calling for efforts to counter protectionism, mindful of Western tariff hikes on Chinese products such as electric vehicles.

Suppose one analyses the nearly quarter century of the SCO’s existence as a promising regional organisation in the post-Soviet space. One can find the SCO as a one-power and one-nation (China) show. Within the SCO, China’s growing clout stems from the economic dependence of almost all the members of the communist nation.

India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is in Islamabad as Pakistan hosts the 23rd SCO Summit. It is the first time in nearly a decade that an Indian Foreign Minister has traveled to Pakistan e