Presidents Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao and four other heads of state were to attend unprecedented military exercises on Friday by the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), intended as a display of strength before the Western world.
The event is the culmination of a nine-day exercise dubbed "Peace Mission 2007" that began in the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang and involves some 6,000 military personnel from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
It comes after SCO leaders underlined their opposition to perceived US hegemony at a summit on Thursday in the ex-Soviet Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also attended as an observer, lashing out at US "interference."
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