Modi's India lost an opportunity by hosting SCO summit online with Xi, Putin, Sharif

Whoever thought of July 4 as the date to hold the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit must be complimented for their sense of humour — of course, it must have been a scheduling issue and decided much in advance in consultation with all the attending states. But the reason I say that the summit date should bring a smile to the reader is because the SCO is largely seen as a China-led organisation and 4 July is America's independence day. And as we all know by now, China and the US are not particularly the best of friends these days. Unfortunately,…