Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit: President Xi proposes anti-extremism treaty

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Roee Ruttenberg

Roee Ruttenberg

Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit(From L) Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chinese President Xi Jinping, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov attend the signing of joint agreements following the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit at the Navruz Palace in Dushanbe on September 12, 2014. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / KREMLIN POOL / MICHAEL KLIMENTYEV
Published September 12, 2014 at 10:14 PM
Updated September 13, 2014 at 2:53 AM

Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Tajikistan for the second and final day of the 14th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). President Xi and 13 other leaders laid down some groundwork on how to increase regional and economic cooperation.

CCTV America’s Roee Ruttenberg reports from Dushanbe.

For more insight on the SCO summit and the group’s role in the region, CCTV America was joined by Jia Xiu-Dong. He is a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies.