The Summit Washington couldn’t stop

Filed by Elara Myst

 by Thomas Karat | Sep 7, 2026A photograph moved across the Western wires with a caption in capital letters. “COUNTER US POWER,” it read, above an image of the Kyrgyzstan president walking China’s Xi Jinping past an honor guard in Bishkek, when they met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SOC) summit that took place from August 31 to September 1, 2026. The two men were not photographed doing anything to the United States. They were walking to lunch. The ...