The forum is a key part of China’s campaign to be seen as a reliable partner and a counterweight to U.S. unpredictability in an increasingly multipolar world. Modi’s attendance in particular — his first visit to the country in seven years — is a milestone in Beijing’s attempt to mend ties with an influential U.S. partner that has been alienated by Trump’s tariffs.
For now, the 26-country grouping is primarily “united in a sense of aggrievement with the U.S. rather than a sense of common purpose,” said Carla Freeman, director of the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. “These are big countries with their own agendas.”
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