Putin’s anti-Nato coalition is ‘more developed’ than the West

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All eyes are on the summit in eastern China (Picture: EPA/ AP/ Getty) Big smiles, hearty laughs, warm hugs… The atmosphere at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China feels more like a school reunion, where old classmates compare how much weight they have put on. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi – who represent the top three largest powers not aligned with the West – are shown joking like friends as they greet each other at the event earlier today. It starts with Russia’s president and India’s prime minister holding hands and walking into a meeting hall...