Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said NATO is frantically seeking new pretexts to prolong its already entirely "artificial" existence.

Russia's foreign ministry said it summoned the German chargé d'affaires in Moscow over German government actions and statements it described as anti‑Russia. Moscow denied German accusations of Russian involvement in the Leipzig airport incident, said Berlin used those claims as a pretext to close the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin, and warned it will respond firmly.

Shanghai will, during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period, deepen pilot measures to open the services sector and push implementation of opening projects in value‑added telecom, biotechnology and wholly foreign‑owned hospitals. The city will apply the revised Catalogue for the Encouragement of Foreign Investment, use marquee foreign-funded projects to steer capital into advanced manufacturing, modern services and high‑tech sectors, and support foreign firms’ participation in upstream and downstream industry‑chain cooperation to broaden their investment space.