NATO’s North Atlantic Council expressed solidarity with affected allies and reiterated support for Ukraine.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said the US-led joint statement at the Aug. 11 Geneva disarmament talks—criticizing a recent Pacific missile launch for not following prior-notification norms and invoking the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation—was a political insinuation aimed at China. Guo called the move hypocritical and indicative of double standards, urged those states to stop abusing multilateral arms-control mechanisms, and said they should replace confrontation with sincere dialogue to create conditions for arms-control exchanges.

美国能源信息署目前认为，近期对途经曼德海峡运送沙特石油的船只的威胁并未导致石油产量中断。