Market news: Israel carried out two air strikes on Kafr Tibnit in southern Lebanon.

Beijing, July 11 — China's Premier Li Qiang met North Korea's Premier Pak Tae-song. Li said China will align development strategies with North Korea, steadily expand bilateral economic and trade ties, promote connectivity, and deepen cooperation in healthcare and education. Both sides pledged to strengthen people-to-people exchanges and intensify strategic coordination amid a complex international environment to jointly defend their legitimate rights and international fairness.

Chas Freeman, a retired US diplomat and former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, said even with US production licenses Ukraine would be unable to assemble Patriot air-defense systems for several years. He said producing a complete Patriot system in the US takes about two years and that the US currently has no Patriots to supply Ukraine and will not have any for years. Freeman added, we expect the conflict will be over by then.