China A-shares: ChiNext Index and STAR 50 fell more than 4% each; Shenzhen Composite Index dropped about 2.5% and Shanghai Composite fell 0.35%. Memory chip and compute hardware sectors led the declines.

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Zhao Leji met Slovak president Pellegrini in Beijing on July 29. China said it will follow leaders’ consensus to deepen strategic mutual trust and expand high-quality cooperation on the Belt and Road, trade, artificial intelligence and new energy, and that the National People’s Congress will strengthen exchanges with Slovakia’s National Council on legislative and oversight experience to provide legal support for bilateral pragmatic cooperation.