MOFCOM and eight other Chinese ministries issued guidance to further stimulate lower-tier market activity and boost county-level consumption.

On the 17th, US President Trump said secret communications between US officials and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) remain open and urged Iran to "raise the white flag and surrender." He told Fox News the private channel persists despite Iran's public confrontational posture, said his approach is unrelated to the US midterm elections, and added "I have no timetable, I'm not in a hurry." The IRGC rejected the claim as a "hallucination," saying its officials have not held secret talks and calling Trump's statements a "lie" born of "war failures and despair."

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