Take this .... coming from a London newspaper ---- "To see Mr Modi, Mr Xi and Vladimir Putin smiling and joking is to watch Washington’s influence fade" ....

 The White House wanted India to bow. Instead, Narendra Modi flew to China, shook Xi Jinping’s hand and left Washington sidelined. -- 

The Guardian editorial --- It also said  ----  

"......it is in Tianjin, not Washington, where it looks as if the hinge of history is moving.

The SCO is easy to dismiss: the bloc is a bundle of contradictions. India and Pakistan remain adversaries. China and India still stare across a garrisoned Himalayan frontier .....

Russia and China vie for influence in Central Asia. 

Unlike Nato, the SCO has no binding defence commitments. 

For much of its life, it has looked like a paper tiger, sending out communiques that were all roar and no bite.

(But..... now things have changed --- blogger)  

The SCO may never fight China’s wars, but it ensures Beijing will never stand alone. 

That is the high price the west may end up paying for Mr Trump’s narcissistic delusions.

To see Mr Modi, Mr Xi and Vladimir Putin smiling and joking is to watch Washington’s influence fade -- the newspaper said.

For China, the rewards are immediate. Mr Trump has given Mr Xi a stage on which to pose as the host of an important multipolar gathering.  

For Moscow, every handshake in Tianjin underlines that sanctions have not made it a pariah. For Turkey, attendance preserves its ambiguity as a Nato member. For Iran, the SCO condemned the US-Israeli attacks it suffered this summer. 

The more this theatre normalises China and Russia as leaders of a non-western bloc, the harder it becomes for Washington, 'The Guardian' says.