Solidarity Summit

The Far East didn’t take the weekend off.

President Xi Jinping of China hosted the largest-ever summit for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)—a political, economic, and security alliance seen as a counterbalance to Western groups like NATO. More than 20 world leaders attended, including Indian PM Modi, Russian President Putin, and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. 

China presented its vision for a West-challenging “multilateral” global order, with leaders projecting regional solidarity. Xi chatted with his “old friend” Putin and with Modi, who celebrated an “atmosphere of peace and stability” after years of border tension between the neighboring countries.

The summit preceded today’s massive Chinese military parade in Tiananmen Square. Xi’s parade marks the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII and is expected to flex China’s military power for the West to see.

CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
The gospel is scandalous because God’s heart is for everyone—East, West, and the ends of the earth—to know Him. His mission is for the life of the world… How are you joining Him?

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.”
John 3:16-18 (CSB) (read full passage)