The recent SCO summit made the West pay attention – because it showed that nations can try to work around their differences for a better world The SCO summit in Tianjin, China has caught the attention of the West as no previous summit has. The West has, in general, paid more attention to BRICS as a forum than the SCO. This is because BRICS has an intercontinental spread unlike the SCO, which is confined to the Eurasian landmass, with China, Russia, and the Central Asian states as original