There was a diplomatic version of a Mexican Standoff among Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi under the umbrella of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). They let the skeletons from the past border skirmishes sleep under the blanket of snow. For now.

They were loving the adage – Nature abhors a vacuum. So, as a reaction to the vacuum left by President Trump, the leader of the free world, they huddled together to fill the vacuum.

Except Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and India, the rest of the seven SCO member states are non-democratic government.

The Narendra Modified India is home to 300 million untouchables, of which 140 million are Muslim. He is beholden to the Hindu upper caste people as well as the industrialist oligarchs.

President-for-Life Xi Jinping is the ruler of the Chinese surveillance state, and he would put the Communist Party over the Chinese people anytime, according to Professor Sarah Payne.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia, the champion of the art of defenestration, doesn’t have a plan B. And no retirement.

They wait inside the limousine at a Eurasian filling station for the refueling truck to arrive.