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Central Asian SCO Summit Bad News for Putin

Xi didn’t meet Pope or Modi in Central Asia

Sep 19, 2022
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By: Toh Han Shih

On September 15, Sadyr Japarov, the president of Kyrgyzstan, and Turkish president Recep Erdogan on September 16 each kept Russian President Vladimir Putin waiting during bilateral meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This is a reversal for Putin, who in the past has done that to the late Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, form…

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