ISLAMABAD
\nThe 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin (31 Aug\u20131 Sept 2025) concluded with leaders signing the Tianjin Declaration, adopting a Development Strategy to 2035, and approving 24 outcome documents spanning security, economy and people-to-people ties.
\nChina\u2019s Foreign Ministry said leaders also issued a statement on the multilateral trading system. Pakistan formally participated at heads-of-state level, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif leading the delegation, according to the Foreign Office\u2019s curtain-raiser and post-summit note.
\nAt the summit, President Xi Jinping announced China would create three major platforms with SCO partners in energy, green industry, and the digital economy, alongside three cooperation centres for scientific and technological innovation, higher education, and vocational\/technical education.
\nXinhua\u2019s summit wrap noted the leaders signed\/adopted the Tianjin Declaration and longer-term economic strategy, underscoring a widened agenda into development and digital domains. On the bloc\u2019s weight, Xinhua reported ahead of the summit that the SCO now represents \u201cnearly half of the world\u2019s population\u201d and \u201cabout a quarter of global GDP.\u201d
\nXinhua coverage and China\u2019s MFA readouts emphasised expanded cooperation on digital economy and e-commerce, with action plans to promote paperless trade and digital connectivity among members as part of the 24 outcome documents.
\nWhile summit documents\/public briefings referenced new cooperation platforms and centres, Chinese and state-media readouts also described discussions on economic\/financial mechanisms to support green and digital projects across the SCO (e.g., cooperation platforms, action plans). Pakistan: opportunities and caveats.
\nPakistan\u2019s presence was two-track: foreign ministers\u2019 meetings in mid-July (Deputy PM\/Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar attended the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers in Tianjin) and the heads-of-state summit led by the prime minister at end-August\/early-September.
\nIslamabad has publicly framed SCO engagement as a means to deepen regional trade, digital connectivity and industrial cooperation; however, Pakistan-specific project financing tied directly to the Tianjin outcomes has not been detailed in FO or media readouts to date.
\nOfficial Chinese readouts depict the Tianjin summit as the SCO\u2019s most expansive agenda to date, moving beyond traditional security coordination into green industry and digital economy collaboration through newly announced platforms\/centres and multi-year strategies.
\nFor Pakistan, the potential lies in joining those platforms and leveraging the bloc\u2019s large market share; concrete benefits will depend on follow-up agreements and project-level financing that Islamabad can secure in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD The 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin (31 Aug\u20131 Sept 2025) concluded with leaders signing the Tianjin Declaration, adopting a Development Strategy to 2035, and approving 24 outcome documents spanning security, economy and people-to-people ties. China\u2019s Foreign Ministry said leaders also issued a statement on the multilateral trading system. Pakistan formally participated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-503050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n