In this episode, we discuss the emphatically ambitious SCO summits in China, the grand military parade in Beijing, and military exercises in Belarus.

  • How historic were the SCO and SCO+ summits in China? How to evaluate the main results and statements?
  • What unites and what divides the SCO member states?
  • Is the SCO emerging from an identity crisis and becoming a geopolitical counterbalance to the West?
  • The historic rapprochement of the positions of India and China.
  • What messages is Beijing sending to the world community by holding a large-scale military parade?
  • What military exercises have begun in Belarus?
  • Information wars and the "West-2025" exercises.

From the Minsk Dialogue office — with Denis Melyantsou, and Yauheni Preiherman.

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