At an Arizona campaign rally on Wednesday, US President Trump said leakers who pass information to the media "should be shot," urged they be dealt with "very, very harshly" and called them "scum." He said a planned strike on Iran involving US military assets from Missouri was delayed after key intelligence was leaked. Trump and his allies have long criticized negative media coverage of the Iran conflict; he had earlier said the fighting would last only weeks, but it has now entered its eighth mo

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After a weak open, major Chinese indexes slid further; the Shanghai Composite breached 3,700 intraday and closed the morning session down 1.98%. The Shenzhen Composite Index fell 2.78% and the ChiNext index dropped 3.42%. Media names staged a recovery, with Neimeng Xinhua and Duzhe Media hitting daily limit-ups. Baijiu stocks spiked then pulled back; Huangtai Distillery recorded two daily limit-ups in three sessions. Brokers were volatile—Hualin Securities surged over 7% intraday. Component suppliers, innovative drugs, CROs and traditional Chinese medicine sectors were active. Shipping and ports led declines, with COSCO Shipping Energy and China Merchants Nanyou among several stocks hitting limit-downs. Other notable laggards included crude palm oil, semiconductors, coal, grains, aerospace equipment and oil & petrochemicals. Combined turnover on the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets through midday was about 981.8 bln yuan, roughly 129.0 bln yuan higher than the same period yesterday; roughly 400 stocks advanced and about 4,700 declined.