The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, welcomes dozens of world leaders to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin and a series of other events that will culminate in a Beijing military parade to mark 80 years since the end of the second world war
Matt Fidler
Main image: China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, take a walk in the garden of his Zhongnanhai residence in Beijing. Photograph: Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik/Kremlin/EPA
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.08 CEST
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