SCO brings China, India new opportunity

Summitry was at the heart of geopolitics in the past week or so.

While the G7 meeting in Canada ended on an acrimonious note, placing US President Donald Trump at odds with the rest of the leaders of the grouping and prompted some Western observers to call the outcome a "G6 plus one", the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in China came out looking quite different.

On Tuesday, when world media attention was focused on the historic meeting between Trump and Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, former NBA star Dennis Rodman who was also in the city state, cried on live television recalling his efforts to get the US to sit with the DPRK.