The 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is likely to be overshadowed by the Xi-Putin face-to-face meeting in Uzbekistan.

Geo-political observers will be paying close attention to what is going to happen from the summit as well as their meeting.

So what’s at stake, what are the optics and what’s in it for the key players?

Prime Time's Bharati Jagdish speaks with Timothy Go, who’s on a bleisure trip in Uzbekistan, on the security, the mood on the ground, as well as what to expect.