Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should cooperate further in economics and security to move away from the Western-led world order, China's President Xi Jinping has said.

Xi's address to members of the Eurasian bloc on Monday delivered a statement of intent about the rise of the so-called Global South.

"We should advocate for equal and orderly multi-polarization of the world," he said.

Steve Tsang, author of the forthcoming book, China's Global Strategy under Xi Jinping, told Newsweek that Xi's comments showed how he was working "to transform the existing international order into a Sino-centric one."

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The SCO is a Eurasian bloc established in 2001 which has expanded to include economic heavyweights like India to become a counterweight to the we

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