Xi visits Shanghai Cooperation Organization SCO as first trip abroad since Covid started!
Channel: Harald in China
Date: 2022-09-16

Much has been speculated about when and where Chinese president Xi Jinping would make a return on the international diplomatic stage. Now we know: He went to Uzbekistan of all places, to meet Putin, Erdogan, and more than a dozen regional presidents, NOT to the West or previously established powers. Lots of sources below

0:00 Introduction
0:18 what is the SCO
3:10 China-India relations 
6:40 India’s geopolitical shift
7:54 Xi Jinping’s efficient diplomacy
8:50 The significance of Xi’s first trip being to Central Asia
13:10 The fair world order
15:50 Europe’s choice: give up Asia for the US?

Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmation that Xi has landed in Uzbekistan: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx_662805/202209/t20220915_10766231.html

SCO Website: http://eng.sectsco.org/

SCO Overview: https://www.chinausfocus.com/finance-economy/shanghai-cooperation-organization-perspectives-from-central-asia

SCO in numbers: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-09-12/Chart-of-the-Day-What-is-the-SCO--1dgqmDmy9EY/index.html

Who does sanction Russia and who doesn’t: https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/legal-framework-russias-sanctions-really-mean.html/ 

Geographical overview of Kashmir region: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kashmir 
Political overview of Kashmir region: https://www.acaps.org/country/india/crisis/regional-kashmir-conflict 

Details on the Sino-Indian War 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War 

Description of the China-India border clashes by German State Media DW: https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-next-in-the-china-india-border-conflict/a-60586745 

Xi Jinping meetings in Uzbekistan on Thursday September 15 (including the strong statement about “weak leadership” in the West: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202209/1275375.shtml
All Xi Jinping meetings in Uzbekistan so far confirmed: http://en.people.cn/102775/517565/index.html 

The failed coup in Kazakhstan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfhs3_aKwTY 

Countries condemning China’s Xinjiang policies: https://euagenda.eu/news/744728 

The US unilaterally leaving the Iran Deal: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/world/middleeast/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html

The US dropping the Kurds in Syria: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49960973 

How the US hides its original promises regarding Taiwan: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/05/21/u-s-violates-its-promises-to-china-asserts-authority-over-taiwan/ and the full pledge by the US: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/05/21/u-s-violates-its-promises-to-china-asserts-authority-over-taiwan/ 

List of unsigned or unratified treaties by the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_treaties_unsigned_or_unratified_by_the_United_States 

Chinese investment in Europe and vice versa: https://www.bruegel.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/EXPO_STU2020603492_EN.pdf 
Chinese - EU trade growth: https://www.bruegel.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/WP-2019-09-China-finalincl-edit.pdf (has since continued to grow in 2020 and 2021)