Putin and Xi to meet at SCO summit to bolster security and counter the US
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Putin and Xi to meet at SCO summit to bolster security and counter the US

ASTANA, July 3 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping hailed their Eurasian security club on Wednesday as a force for global stability at a summit of the regional body, which is seen by Moscow and Beijing as a tool to counter Western influence. Putin and the Chinese president have expanded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a club founded in 2001 with Russia, China and Central Asian nations, to include India, Iran and Pakistan as a counterweight to the...