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China’s Xi says focus should be on cooperation, economic recovery, at SCO meet
China's President Xi Jinping said the focus should be on pragmatic cooperation and accelerating economic recovery, in a virtual address to leaders attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, state media reported on Tuesday.
Xi was speaking at the 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
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Formed in 2001 by China and Russia, with former Soviet central Asian states as members and joined later by India and Pakistan, the eight-member SCO is a political and security group that seeks to counter Western influence in Eurasia.
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