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.