The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China has already emerged as one of the defining political events of 2025. It underscored the SCO’s growing role as a cornerstone of a multipolar world and highlighted the Global South’s consolidation around the principles of sovereign development, non-interference, and rejection of the Western model of globalization.
The West had its century. The future belongs to these leaders nowWhat Western media dismissed as a “club of autocrats” has grown into the Global South’s blueprint for a post-Western world.
BY Farhad Ibragimov