Tianjin, China —

The leaders of three of the world’s largest countries will be gathering for a Eurasian summit in China this weekend.

But when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping join other heads of state in Tianjin for the 25th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), absent will be American sparring partner President Donald Trump.

“For this particular summit, the US may not be at the table, but the US is always present,” said Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Washington-based Stimson Center.

Trump will nonetheless be the talk of Tianjin.

“The one thing that they’re going to talk about is the United States, its policies, its tariffs,” predicted Sushant Singh, lecturer in South Asian Studies a

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