White House official says President Trump has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran.

At the Lujiazui Forum plenary on June 17, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission CEO Liang Fengyi said global energy transition and supply‑chain reshaping could make new‑energy trade a new driver of RMB internationalisation. She said it is still early to call the RMB a "new‑energy currency" but urged Hong Kong, as the global offshore RMB hub, to assume a more central role.

June 17, Lujiazui Forum — MORGAN STANLEY Asia CEO and global co-head of equities Gokul Laroia said global investor interest in China is strengthening. He called China, after the US, the only market with an independent, end-to-end AI ecosystem, evolving from semiconductor localization to data centers and cloud providers, large language models and downstream applications including digital services and humanoid robots. He said hundreds of companies are already participating and estimated the ecosystem could generate an incremental $30–40 trillion in market value.