Xi Jinping calls on SCO members to team up for bigger global tech-security role

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation should take on a bigger global role in technology and security, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, describing the Eurasian bloc as having vast potential.
At the SCO’s summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Xi said the group had shown “strong vitality” since its founding 25 years ago amid the “sobering lessons of the Cold War”.
In a veiled reference to Washington’s system of military alliances, Xi said a key lesson from the bloc’s quarter of a century of...