China’s National Development and Reform Commission said it will continue to expand trade and investment cooperation with Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partners and actively promote "small-and-beautiful" project construction during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period. The NDRC said it will broaden cooperation in emerging sectors, deepen multi-sector people-to-people exchanges and livelihood projects, strengthen and diversify BRI investment and financing risk-control frameworks to boost risk-prevent

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy public relations said two tankers transiting an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz were intercepted and are burning after explosions. One vessel, described as a supertanker, exploded after striking a sea mine; the second, which IRGC said was attempting a covert transit under protection of a US military fighter jet, also suffered an incident and was intercepted. Both ships reportedly shut off navigation and identification systems, struck the Strait of Hormuz’s "firewall", were abandoned on the southern shore and remain aflame.

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