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Summit highlights contours of Indian foreign policy

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Significance

India will host the 2023 summit as the group’s chair for the year. Events in Samarkand cast a spotlight on its bilateral relations with other member states and gave an indication of its near-term foreign policy goals.

Impacts

  • Several key SCO-backed events will take place in Varanasi, the group’s tourism and cultural capital for 2022-23.
  • India and China will likely take several more months to resolve their border stand-off in the western Himalayas.
  • Delhi will try to reduce its reliance on imports of Russian arms.

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