SCO defense Ministers pose for group photo during meeting in China's Qingdao

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China hosted defense ministers from Iran and Russia for a meeting in its eastern seaside city of Qingdao on Thursday against the backdrop of war in the Middle East.

Beijing has long sought to present the 10-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and has pushed to strengthen collaboration between its member countries in politics, security, trade and science. The Qingdao meeting of the organization’s top defense officials comes as a fledgling ceasefire between Israel and Iran holds after 12 days of fighting between them.  

Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov painted a bleak picture of a world seeing "worsening geopolitical tensions" when he addressed his counterparts at the meeting. His Chinese counterpart Dong Jun also framed Thursday's meeting in Qingdao, home to a major Chinese naval base, as a counterweight to a world in "chaos and instability".

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