海关总署：中国8月成品油出口601万吨，7月为465.3万吨。

Choi Tae‑won, SK Group chairman and head of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, reiterated on Sept. 8 support for a Korea‑Japan economic community he estimates at about $6 trillion — roughly the world’s fourth‑largest economy — arguing deeper integration would help the two countries compete with major global economies and ease fiscal pressures from low birthrates and ageing. He said joint planning of energy procurement, storage and use, and physical links for power and gas, could lower related costs by about 3–5%. Choi added SK is in ongoing AI cooperation talks with Japanese firms including NTT and Tokyo Electron.

RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY said Russian armed forces struck energy infrastructure and drone-manufacturing facilities in Odesa and the Odesa region.