September 16, 2025

Ar-Raya Newspaper: Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit and Chinese Influence

Al Raya sahafa

2025-09-17

Ar-Raya Newspaper: Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit

and Chinese Influence

From August 31 to September 1, more than twenty leaders met in the city of Tianjin in northern China to attend the periodic summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The organization includes ten full members, in addition to two observer states and fourteen partner countries.

During the summit, it became clear that Russia's position within the organization - which previously showed two heads - had weakened, while China's influence increased significantly. At the conclusion of the summit, the Tianjin Declaration was adopted, which stipulated recognition of countries' right to monitor the Internet within their territories, expand cooperation to combat drug smuggling, and agree to establish a unified bank for the organization.

After the summit, on September 3, a military parade was held in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing with the participation of the same leaders, to mark the end of World War II. US President Trump described this event as a conspiracy directed against his country.

As is known, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has taken upon itself the task of confronting four main challenges: terrorism, extremism, separatism, and drug trafficking, in order to achieve stability and security. However, the reality reveals that Muslims bear the brunt of these confrontations; the organization is fighting Islam, Islamic groups, and Muslims under the guise of "combating terrorism and extremism," seeking to put obstacles in the way of the Ummah's quest to establish the Caliphate. Muslims also bear the burden of what is called "combating separatism," as Muslims in the Caucasus inside Russia, and the Uyghurs in China, have become victims of this pretext.

China:

China is one of the main initiators of the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2001. Through it, it opened the door to its historical expansion towards Central Asia. The continuous growth of China's economy, compared to the decline of Russia's influence on the international scene, has given it the opportunity to implement major projects in the region. Thus, the economic dimension of the organization - which was primarily directed towards regional security - began to grow stronger. This is confirmed by China's initiative, proposed for years to establish a development bank affiliated with the organization, which received support at the September 1 summit.

The member states affirmed the importance of establishing the Development Bank, and decided to organize its work and provide everything necessary to finance its activity and ensure its operation. In addition, China intends to implement one hundred small projects for the benefit of needy member states within the framework of the organization. For this purpose, China will grant approximately two billion yuan (about $280 million) as a gift this year, in addition to providing ten billion yuan as loans.

Chinese President Xi Jinping did not limit himself to that, but launched statements during the summit directed against "unilateral hegemony" and the "Cold War mentality," targeting the United States.

The One Belt One Road project is also opening new corridors to enhance transportation links. For example, construction has begun on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway line, and an additional border crossing is being opened between Kyrgyzstan and China under the name Bedel. From this it is clear that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has become a tool in China's hands to push its economic expansion towards Central Asia, and then to South Asia.

Russia:

Russia is also one of the founding countries of the organization, and its main goal was to prevent the penetration of Western influence in Central Asia. However, the decline of the Russian economy and Russia's international standing paved the way for the growth of Chinese influence in the region. Initially, Russia - albeit indirectly - stood against strengthening economic cooperation within the organization for fear of the growth of Chinese economic influence in Central Asia, but the war in Ukraine forced it to retreat from this position.

Today, Russia supports China's position on the international scene. This is evident in President Putin's statement in support of the initiative put forward by Xi Jinping on global governance, as he said: "We have listened carefully to Mr. Xi Jinping's proposals on building a new, effective and practical global governance system. This initiative is of great importance in the current circumstances, as some countries are still seeking to impose their hegemony in international relations. Russia supports President Xi Jinping's initiative, and we are interested in discussing the proposals put forward by our Chinese friends." (Sputnik, 2025/9/1)... Accordingly, Russia's declining role within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is undeniable.

India:

It may seem from the outside that America's imposition of customs duties on India has pushed it towards cooperation with the East. In addition, US President Trump called on India to restrict its purchases of Russian oil. While Russia's share of India's oil imports did not exceed 1% until 2022, it has now risen to 42%.

But in reality, despite talk of partnership between India and China, the competition between them is clear. The main reason is that India pursues a policy based on the West. The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor project was also launched as a competing alternative to the Chinese Belt and Road project. In parallel, major American companies have begun moving their industrial production from China to India.

One manifestation of India's contradictory positions within the organization is that it refused to join the statement issued by the meeting of defense ministers of member states in June, which condemned the attacks of the Jewish entity on Iran. India justified its position by saying that the statement ignored the bloody events that took place on April 22 with Pakistan; accordingly, India's position deepens the contradictions and conflicts within the organization.

Central Asia:

It can be said that the Central Asian countries participate in this organization out of necessity; their main trade relations are linked to China and Russia, and at the same time they are still under the influence of Russia as the heir to the Soviet Union. The organization has helped strengthen these countries' relations with China.

However, these countries are trying to follow a multi-directional policy. In Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in particular, huge Western investments prevent them from taking a foreign position hostile to the West. Kyrgyzstan stands in a slightly different position, as it seeks to strengthen its relations with China and obtain loans and aid from it, and therefore takes an anti-Western stance.

In addition, Kyrgyzstan is submitting a series of proposals to develop the organization, especially to strengthen China's position within it. For example, during the last summit, proposals were made to create new transportation routes and take advantage of the (transit-transport) capabilities of the organization's countries, which serves the Belt and Road project. It also called for accelerating the establishment of an effective financial mechanism for the organization, including the establishment of a development bank, a development fund, and an investment fund, all of which would enhance Chinese influence.

At the same time, in order to appease Russia and win the support of its people, these countries rushed to issue a statement against America and Britain.

Conclusion:

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has gradually begun to transform into an organization that serves the economic and security interests of China more than it serves the goals for which it was established in the first place. As for the issue of regional stability, it has remained just a slogan on paper. This is confirmed by the organization's positions regarding a number of military conflicts. For example, when the armed conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, both of which are members of the organization, the organization took no action, not even issuing an official position. Likewise, in the fall of 2022, when the border conflict broke out between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan during the organization's summit in Samarkand.

Accordingly, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the like are nothing but a colonial trap set for Muslims. Muslims will not escape these colonial claws except by returning to their Islam. This is well understood by the colonizing infidels and our rulers, their henchmen, and that is why they are fighting us under the pretext of combating "terrorism, extremism, and separatism."

By: Professor Mumtaz Ma Waraa Al-Nahri

Source: Ar-Raya Newspaper

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November 11, 2025

Ar-Raya Newspaper: Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

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Ar-Raya Newspaper:Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

O people of Sudan: How long will the conflict in Sudan and elsewhere remain fuel for international ambitions and their struggle with their malicious plans, interventions, and supplying the conflicting parties with weapons to completely control it?! Your women and children have been suffering for more than two years from this bloody conflict that only serves the interests of the West and its allies in controlling the fate of Sudan, which has always been coveted for its location and wealth, so it is in their interest to tear it apart and fragment it. The Rapid Support Forces' seizure of Al-Fashir is just another episode in these plans, as America wants to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan and eliminate British influence in it.

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The Goal of Ortagus' Visit

to Lebanon!

In light of the American offensive against Lebanon and the region with the project of normalization and surrender, and the US administration's endeavor under Trump and his team to bring more rulers of Muslim countries into the Abraham Accords, the visit of the American envoy Morgan Ortagus to Lebanon and the usurping Jewish entity comes, loaded with political, security, and economic pressures, threats, and conditions on Lebanon, noting that this visit coincided with the visit of the Secretary-General of the Arab League and the Director of Egyptian Intelligence, apparently to serve the same direction.

In response to these visits, a media statement from the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Lebanon affirmed the following:

First: The interventions of America and its followers in Muslim countries are to serve the interests of America and the Jewish entity, not to serve our interests, especially since America is the first supporter of the Jewish entity in politics, economy, finance, weapons, and media, openly and publicly.

Second: The envoy's visit is not a neutral visit, as some may imagine! Rather, it comes in the context of a clear American policy in the region that supports the Jewish entity and contributes to enabling it militarily and politically, and what the American envoy offers is only an imposition of hegemony, a consecration of subservience, and a diminution of sovereignty, which is a form of surrender and submission to the Jews, and this is what God refuses for the people of Islam.

Third: Accepting these dictates and signing any agreements that consecrate foreign tutelage is a betrayal of God, His Messenger, the Ummah, and everyone who fought or sacrificed to remove this usurping entity from Lebanon and Palestine.

Fourth: Dealing with the Jewish entity is a crime in the legal sense for the vast majority of the people of Lebanon, Muslims and non-Muslims, even in the positive law to which the Lebanese authority resorts, or human law in general, especially after the criminal entity committed genocide in Gaza, which it has not and will not hesitate to do in Lebanon and other Muslim countries.

Fifth: The American campaign and offensive on the region will not pass, and America will not succeed in its endeavor to shape the region as it desires, and if it has its project for the region, which is based on colonialism, plundering peoples, misleading Muslims, and even taking them out of their religion by calling for the (Abrahamic religion), then Muslims, in return, have their project promised by God Almighty; the project of the Second Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood, which has become very close, God willing, and this project is the one that will redraw the region, and even the entire world, anew, in fulfillment of the saying of the Messenger ﷺ: "Indeed, God showed me the earth, and I saw its east and its west, and my nation will reach what was shown to me of it." Narrated by Muslim, and the Jewish entity will be eliminated as the Messenger of God ﷺ foretold in his hadith: "The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them..." Agreed upon.

In conclusion, Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Lebanon continues to adopt the task of repelling America's campaign and offensive of normalization and surrender on Lebanon and the region, and nothing will deter it from doing so, and we warn the Lebanese authority against following the path of normalization and surrender! And we call on it to seek refuge in its people to confront that, and not to play around with the matter under the pretext of borders or reconstruction and the influence of the international system, ﴿And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most people do not know.﴾.

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A Delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan

Meets with a Number of Dignitaries from the City of Al-Ubayyid

A delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan, on Monday, November 3, 2025, visited a number of dignitaries from the city of Al-Ubayyid, the capital of North Kordofan. The delegation was led by Professor Al-Nazeer Muhammad Hussein Abu Minhaj, a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Council in Wilayah Sudan, accompanied by Engineer Banqa Hamid and Professor Muhammad Saeed Boukeh, members of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The delegation met with:

Professor Khalid Hussein - Head of the Democratic Unionist Party, Jalaa Al-Azhari wing.

Dr. Abdullah Youssef Abu Seil - Lawyer and Professor of Law at universities.

Sheikh Abdul Rahim Jouda - From the Ansar al-Sunna group.

Mr. Ahmed Muhammad - Suna News Agency correspondent.

The meetings touched on the topic of the hour; the fall of Al-Fashir and the accompanying crimes of the militia against the people of the city, and the betrayal of the army leaders, who did not fulfill their duty towards the people of Al-Fashir and lift the siege on them, while they were capable of doing so throughout the period of the siege, and the repeated attacks on them, more than 266 attacks.

Then the delegation handed them a copy of the publication of Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan entitled: "The fall of Al-Fashir opens the way for America's plan to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan. How long will we be fuel for the international conflict?!" Their reactions were excellent and they called for the continuation of these meetings.

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"Phoenix Express 2025" Exercises

A Chapter in Tunisia's Submission to American Hegemony

Tunisia's preparation to host the new version of the multilateral naval exercise "Phoenix Express 2025" during the month of November comes, which is the exercise that the US Africa Command has become organizing annually after the regime in Tunisia involved the country by signing with America, on 2020/09/30, a military cooperation agreement, which US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper described as a roadmap that lasts for ten years.

In this regard, a press statement by Hizb ut-Tahrir / Wilayah Tunisia reminded that the party clarified when this dangerous agreement was signed that the matter goes beyond traditional agreements, as America is drawing up a huge project that requires 10 full years to complete, and that the roadmap, according to America's claim, is related to border control, port protection, combating extremist ideology, and confronting Russia and China, and this means, with all impudence, a diminution of Tunisia's sovereignty, but rather it is direct tutelage over our country.

The statement affirmed that Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia, despite the harassment, arrests, and military trials that our youth are subjected to as a result of their speaking out with the word of truth, reaffirms its call to dissolve this ominous colonial agreement that is intended to drag the country and the entire Islamic Maghreb and adapt them to the malicious American policies, and also repeated its appeal to the people of power and strength in Tunisia and all Muslim countries to pay attention to what the enemies of the Ummah are plotting against them and luring them to, and that the Shariah duty requires them to support their religion and repel the enemy lurking in their countries and their Ummah, and to exalt the word of God by supporting those who work to implement His Shariah and establish His state, the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood promised soon, God willing.

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America's Disdain for Its Citizens

Leaves Women and Children Hungry

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal program that helps low-income individuals and families and people with disabilities obtain electronic benefits that are used to purchase food and beverages, except for alcohol, and plants to grow their own food. Reports indicate that 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families. 54% of adults who receive food assistance are women, most of whom are single mothers, and 39% are children, meaning that nearly one in five children relies on these benefits to ensure they don't go hungry. The federal shutdown also forced some states to find other ways to fund free and reduced-price food programs in their educational areas, so that children who rely on food during the school day would not have to live without food. As a result, the many food banks spread throughout the country post pictures of empty shelves and ask people to donate food and grocery store gift cards to meet the increasing demand for food.

Accordingly, the Women's Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: We may ask how can the richest country in the world ignore the fact that millions of its most vulnerable citizens will not find enough food? You may wonder where America spends its money, even during the shutdown? Well, instead of ensuring that Americans get enough food, they send billions of dollars to the Jewish entity to kill Palestinians. He is a ruler who sees building a luxurious celebration hall as more important than anything else, while other deputies find that their personal investments are given priority over the well-being of the people they are supposed to represent! As you can see, capitalist America has never been interested in caring for the affairs of its citizens, but was only interested in providing military and financial support to those who deprive children around the world of their right to security, food, shelter, and education, which are basic necessities. Therefore, it leaves children in America also suffering from hunger and insecurity, and lacking adequate education and health care.

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"Every Muslim is inviolable to another Muslim: his blood, his wealth, and his honor."

To every Muslim, to every officer, soldier, and policeman, to everyone who owns a weapon: God Almighty has granted us reason to think with, and obligated us to use it correctly, so one should not act, perform any action, or utter any statement before knowing its Shariah ruling. Knowing the Shariah ruling requires understanding the reality to which the Shariah ruling is to be applied, so the Muslim must enjoy political awareness, so that he perceives matters as they really are, and is not carried away by the plans of the colonizing disbelievers who do not want good for us or for Islam, and who strive with all their might, cunning, and ingenuity to tear us apart, control our countries, and plunder our capabilities and wealth. How can a Muslim accept to be a tool in the hands of those colonizing disbelievers, or an executor of the orders of their agents?! Does he covet a little of the fleeting pleasures of this world, so he loses his Hereafter and is among the people of the Fire, abiding therein forever, cursed and expelled from the mercy of God? Does a Muslim accept to please any of the created, helpless humans while angering God Almighty, in whose hand is this world and the Hereafter?!

Hizb ut-Tahrir calls you to raise the level of political awareness, adhere to the rulings of God Almighty, and work with it to rule according to what God has revealed, so that it removes the hands of the colonizing disbelievers and their agents from you, and thwarts their plans in our countries.

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You Are the Ones Who Starved the Muslims

O Masoud Pezeshkian!

Under this title, the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: Iran has announced the bankruptcy of the largest private bank in it, which is (Ayandeh) Bank, and this bank has 270 branches in Iran, after the debts on it increased to five billion dollars. What is surprising in the matter is the criticism of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian for administrative failure, saying: "We have oil and gas, but we are hungry"!

The statement affirmed: The person responsible for that administrative failure that the Iranian president is talking about is the president himself, so why is the Iranian people hungry - O Masoud Pezeshkian - and you have oil, gas, and other wealth and minerals? Is it not a result of your foolish policies? Is it not due to your distance from ruling by Islam? The same can be said about the rest of the Muslim countries. The foolish rulers in them squander the Ummah's huge wealth, enable the colonizing disbelievers to access it, and deprive the Ummah of that wealth, then one of them comes to justify the reason for the hunger by saying that it is an administrative failure!

In conclusion, the press statement addressed the Muslims: The foolishness of these rulers who are in charge of your affairs has become clear to every sighted person, and they are not worthy of taking charge of it. It is time for you to restrain them, for this is the ruling of the fool; preventing him from disposing of money and restraining him, and pledge allegiance to one Khaleefah who rules you with the Shariah of God Almighty, and cancels the riba system in your countries so that your Lord Almighty and His Messenger ﷺ will be pleased with you, and restores your plundered wealth, and restores your dignity and honor. Here is Hizb ut-Tahrir, the pioneer whose people do not lie, calling you to work with it to establish the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood.

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To the Sincere Descendants of the Ottoman Heroes

We ask the sincere descendants of the Ottoman heroes: What happened, O great army?! What is this humiliation and weakness?! Is it due to a lack of equipment and supplies?! How can this be, when you are the strongest army in the Middle East? And you rank eighth among the strongest armies in the world, while the Jewish entity ranks eleventh. That is, you are ahead of it in all respects, so how can you accept humiliation?!

The Jihadi army may lose a battle, but it will not lose a war; because the determination that ignited its leaders and soldiers is the same determination that created Badr, Hunayn, and Yarmouk, it is the same determination that opened Andalusia and made Muhammad al-Fatih determined to conquer Constantinople. And it is the same determination that will liberate Al-Aqsa and restore things to their rightful place.

We affirm that the national military doctrine has been lost and not preserved. It is a doctrine of weakness and failure, which diminishes the prestige of the army because it does not open the door to fighting in the way of God. It is a doctrine that made the military a job to receive a salary, so conscription became a heavy burden on the hearts of young people, who avoid it. It is a doctrine that made military ranks for boasting, so the army was emptied of its true meaning.

We in Hizb ut-Tahrir call on our sons in the Turkish army not to continue abandoning Jihad and not to support the Muslims who are crying out for their help; because that is an evil, and what an evil... So do not abandon the pinnacle of this religion until you win in both worlds.

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Trump's Attack on the Democrats

A Coup Against Democracy and an Exposure of Its Falsehood

(Al Jazeera Net, Wednesday, Jumada Al-Akhira 14, 1447 AH, 2025/11/5AD) US President Donald Trump launched a series of sharp statements, criticizing the performance of the Democrats, the voting system, immigration policies, and the government shutdown, stressing that the time has come for the Republicans to take decisive steps (Al Jazeera Network).

Ar-Raya: Since Donald Trump's rise to the American political scene, the world has witnessed a wide debate about the nature of his speech and his style in dealing with his political opponents. Between those who see him as a reformer who wants to restore America to its "lost greatness," and those who consider him a direct threat to the values of democracy, the most important question remains: Is Trump's continuous attack on the Democratic Party merely a normal political conflict, or is it in its essence a coup against American democracy itself?

Trump's attack on the Democrats comes as an internal explosion in the heart of the American system, as it exposes the real conflict between the elite class that controls the joints of the state, and the American people who feel that their voice is no longer effective in the political decision.

Trump's attack on the Democrats, although it seems like a rebellion against American political norms, is in fact a mirror that reflects the crisis of Western democracy itself. It is not only a coup against democracy, but an exposure of its falsehood, and that it is a dead person waiting for the Khilafah state to announce its death and bury it soon, God willing. Our responsibility is to be certain that the path to renaissance is not by imitating

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