Chinese leader Xi Jinping has presided over a multi-day pageant in Beijing and Tianjin staged in part to showcase the strength and unity of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a grouping that China and Russia hope can emerge as a new geopolitical center of gravity in a shifting global order. Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev might have a thing or two to say about that. Azerbaijan figures centrally in several simmering disputes and rivalries among SCO states that undermine Xi’s carefully cultivated image of an organization moving in lockstep…
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