DOMINANT ANGLE

Moscow is framing the Bishkek summit as a demonstration of an alternative order to the one led by the US, with Vladimir Putin holding multiple bilateral meetings and offering Beijing cooperation in artificial intelligence.

ANALYSIS

DOMINANT ANGLE

New Delhi is walking a tightrope in Bishkek: urging Vladimir Putin to shift from a "war of attrition" to a path toward ending the war, hosting Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian for the first time since the US-Israeli conflict with Tehran, while also maintaining its trade dialogue with Washington.

ANALYSIS

DOMINANT ANGLE

Beijing is framing its narrative of the summit around tangible cooperation rather than rivalry, presenting rail, trade, and Russian partnership as evidence of a multipolar order in the making.

ANALYSIS

DOMINANT ANGLE

Islamabad takes from Bishkek a key diplomatic calendar event: the rotating presidency of the SCO for 2026-2027, before hosting the next summit itself, more than an alternative narrative to the West.

ANALYSIS

DOMINANT ANGLE

Paris views the Bishkek summit as less of a unified alliance and more as a stage for a diplomatic marathon, where isolated Iran seeks Russian and Chinese support in the face of American sanctions, between a showcased multipolar facade and unresolved internal rivalries.

ANALYSIS

DOMINANT ANGLE

Ankara is cultivating a balancing role in Bishkek: as a dialogue partner of the SCO since 2012 and a NATO member, Turkey sees this as an additional lever for its multidimensional foreign policy, without breaking away from its Western anchors.

ANALYSIS

DOMINANT ANGLE

Tehran is transforming the Bishkek summit into a diplomatic support tour, holding bilateral meetings to present, from capital to capital, its choice of dialogue as an alternative to the "path of war" framed as the American approach.

ANALYSIS