Thread by @Frank_Ouh

Bit of an overview on 🇨🇳 #China's press work on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. 🧵 The cover page of the People's Daily feautures two letters send by Xi Jinping respectively to 🇰🇿 #Kazakhstan and 🇺🇿 #Uzbekistan and reported by local media. #CentralAsia as the main topic.

This is the English version of Xi's article on Kazakhstan-China🇨🇳🇰🇿 relations on investments, connectivity projects, cultural cooperation, BRI connected with Global Development Initiative, and Global Security Initiative with focus of data security.

english.news.cn/20220913/8ffa8…

Here the article on Sino-Uzbekistani🇨🇳🇺🇿 relations: investment, connectivity (CKU railway "well under way"), culture (Confucius institute, Luban workshops), Covid vaccine/health, BRI/GDI, GSI connected to Afghanistan here.
english.news.cn/20220913/b934c…

Press conference MOFA:"This will be China’s most important event of head-of-state diplomacy on the eve of the 20th National Congress of the [CCP], which shows the high importance China attaches to the SCO and our relations with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan."

fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_6…

Interesting the focus on Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, wonder what is says about China's objectives.

Response on China meeting #Russia: "As for your specific question, I have no information to offer at the moment. We will release information in a timely manner if there is any."

Interview to the SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming 🇨🇳: SCO as model (典范) for Global Security Initiative with language that reminds a Chinese version of the development-security nexus: harmony 和谐, stability 稳定, sustainable developmet 可持续发展.

paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2022…

Other interview by Zhang Ming on SCO summit priorities such as the five year plan of the SCO Good-Neighborliness Treaty, Iran's accession, Belarus's application. Also comments on China's contribution to SCO: values, poverty-reduction, connectivity (BRI).

news.cgtn.com/news/2022-09-1…

Essay by Kazakhstan's ambassador: sovereignty and territorial integrity (one-China and January riots), BRI, investments/trade, "Chinese [language] fever" 汉语热 in Kazakhstan, GSI and GDI. [Feels like ritual language after the third article...]
paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2022…

Enthusiastic response to Xi's visit in #Uzbekistan: "President Xi Jinping's visit is currently the most watched news in Uzbekistan" is one of the quotes by Uzbekistani interviewees in this celebratory article. Culture and connectivity main themes. paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2022…

I'd like to thank @theChinaDude as it makes my role as a commentator much easier by pointing out the must-read articles in Tracking People's Daily, which I can't recommend enough. And also @GiuliaSciorati for the morning press conference via WhatsApp. trackingpeoplesdaily.substack.com/?utm_source=su…