Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting to be held in China’s Qingdao city from June 25 to 27. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif will also attend this meeting. This will be the visit of any Indian minister to China after 7 years. Earlier, the then Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj had visited China in April 2018.