On September 15, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting with the president of Uzbekistan signing a $16 billion investment deal. Another deal sealed at the SCO summit sideline meetings was that between Russian and Uzbekistan which amounts to $4.6 billion.

According to the deal signed with China it will construct a China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway. The deals signed with Russia were in machinery, chemicals, petrochemicals and geology sectors of Uzbekistan’s economy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which Russia promised to support Turkey becoming a permanent member of the SCO in return for Turkey not objecting to the gas pipeline of which 750 km has already been laid down via Iran and needs to build a further 250 km into Pakistani territory. During a half-an-hour closed door meeting held at the Summer Palace residence of the president of Uzbekistan between Xi Jinping and Erdogan it is believed that a billion-dollar grain deal was struck which will enable China to earn billions of dollars from Turkey.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan choked several times during his speech to the summit describing that his country had turned into “a sea of water”, but no collective relief package was offered, leaving him high and dry.

Moreover, the SCO summit failed to persuade President Putin to end the devastating war in Ukraine or for that matter China’s illegal economic expansion into the disputed territories of Gilgit-Baltistan under the guise of the so-called CPEC, which is part of her larger Belt and Road Initiative program.