National coordinators open final summit preparations

Foreign ministers met in Tianjin and reviewed drafts for the upcoming heads-of-state meeting. China chaired the meeting as the SCO presidency continued its annual cycle.

Agriculture ministers met in Kunming and held dialogue with representatives of Egypt, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The meeting framed food and agriculture as areas for regional and partner cooperation,...

National coordinators met online on 4–5 August to review draft summit documents. The multi-stage drafting process illustrates how official declarations are negotiated before their public...

At an online meeting on 11–13 August, national coordinators discussed the Tianjin Declaration and the SCO Development Strategy to 2035. The future-oriented strategy is an official plan rather than...

The Council of National Coordinators met online from 18–20 August to continue work on documents for the Tianjin summit. The sequence reveals the procedural labor behind summit diplomacy.

At their final meeting on 30 August, senior national representatives agreed on a package of documents for the heads-of-state council. The formal summit would determine which texts became adopted...

At the Tianjin summit, leaders decided to grant Laos the status of SCO dialogue partner. This expanded the organization’s external-partner network without making Laos a member state.

The twenty-fifth Council of Heads of State met in Tianjin and adopted 24 documents, including the Tianjin Declaration and the SCO Development Strategy to 2035. The declaration’s multipolar and...

Senior representatives of the SCO, Collective Security Treaty Organization, and Commonwealth of Independent States met after the Tianjin summit to discuss its outcomes and inter-organizational...

The twenty-fourth meeting of foreign economic and trade ministers discussed trade and economic cooperation. The SCO’s economic agenda is pursued through national ministries and voluntary coordination,...