Ukrainian President Zelenskiy urged Ukraine’s diplomatic efforts to focus on pressing allies to speed up implementation of weapons supply agreements.

Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the CPCA, said China’s strong macro backdrop and consumption-promotion measures should keep auto demand resilient and that the national auto market will be broadly stable in 2026. Trucks and buses backed by high production-materials subsidies are recovering strongly; the commercial-vehicle segment is exhibiting equipment-renewal-driven structural growth after recently implemented high subsidies, which are also accelerating electrification in logistics and keeping commercial-vehicle sentiment elevated. Following an outsized policy push in 2025, 2026 has seen a marked policy pullback on entry-level consumption support, contributing to Jan–Jun passenger-car retail declines and a collapse in gasoline passenger-car sales; export gains helped keep June OEM sales relatively stable. June NEV sales were muted, auto exports continued to strengthen, manufacturers’ inventories edged down modestly, and there is no broad industry destocking.

Typhoon Bavi (No.9) is expected to affect eastern Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui in the middle–lower Yangtze between July 11–13. The Yangtze River Maritime Safety Administration raised its typhoon emergency response to level II for the main Yangtze stretch from Anhui to Sichuan from 18:00 on July 11.