Chinese President Xi Jinping has just attended the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Astana and paid state visits to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Among a series of documents on cooperation in energy, investment and more, the SCO meeting adopted the Astana Declaration, which reaffirmed commitment to building a new type of international relations and a community with a shared future for mankind.

What's the significance of the SCO Astana Summit? Why does Central Asia matter for China, and vice versa? Host Liu Kun is joined by Dr. He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Dr. Mher Sahakyan, founder and director of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, a foundation in Armenia; Professor Doug Guthrie, Director of China Initiatives at Thunderbird School of Global Management.