All right, Alexander, let's talk about the SCO and the results of the first day of meetings

at the SCO.

Xi Jinping meeting Modi, Putin meeting Paschignan, Modi, Xi Jinping, Edouan, as well. What are your thoughts on everything that has happened at the

at the SEO so far? Well, so far, we've not had a huge amount of news about specific agreements,

but clearly they're working on all kinds of ideas and they're all talking

to each other and there's talk that the Chinese now want to create yet another bank apparently

that's going to bring together the SEO states. What I think we can see, and this is what I want

to say about the SEO, the SEO started as a kind of loose, very loose talking shop,

a place which various countries, China, Russia, Central Asian states met and discussed security

issues and specifically anti-terrorism issues.

And now it's becoming instead a venue for meetings of top leaders.

So Putin is there.

Xi Jinping obviously is there because he's hosting.

Modi is there.

Erdogan is there.

Paschengen somewhat surprisingly has turned up.

Others are there too, the Prime Minister of Vietnam.

All sorts of imported people are there.

And it's starting to integrate together with the bricks.

So you have the bricks which does the trading and finance issues.

You then have the SEO, which is a more kind of political security type structure.

By the way, I forgot to mention,

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