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SCO summit: a humiliating climbdown

This year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, chaired by India for the first time, was largely overshadowed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s enthusiasm for political point scoring. For a start, he decided to have a virtual rather than an in-person summit, apparently, to avoid hosting his Pakistani counterpart, Shehbaz Sharif, who was likely to attend as had Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari the SCO foreign ministers’ conference in Goa last May - a first such visit in 11 years.