Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the third day of his China trip, attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders meeting in Tianjin on Monday (September 1, 2025).

He addressed the plenary session of the summit, in which he spoke on the Pahalgam attack, stating that “terrorism is a collective challenge to humanity,” The Hindu reported.

Modi will later participate in a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before returning to India.

The SCO summit kicked off on Sunday in the northern port city of Tianjin, days before a massive military parade in the capital Beijing to mark 80 years since the end of World War II.

In his opening remarks, China’s President Xi Jinping called for setting up ‘SCO development bank’ for economic cooperation, according to Hindu.