据日经新闻报道，作为一种重要工业化学品，日本国内烧碱交易价格时隔4年首次上涨。在中东危机持续推高原材料和燃料成本的背景下，化工企业以设备维护费用和物流成本上升为由提出涨价，最终获得下游客户接受。这将成为造纸业、水处理等多个行业成本上升的一个因素。烧碱（氢氧化钠）是一种通过电解盐水制成的工业化学品，用途广泛，包括从木材中提取造纸原料纤维，以及作为工厂废水处理过程中的中和剂等。

China’s embassy in London said European industrial distress reflects domestic structural issues — industrial hollowing, excessive financialization, weak R&D and short‑term capital-driven offshoring — and that blaming Chinese exports conceals policy failures. The embassy said China remains a core link in global manufacturing supply chains, supplying large volumes of cost‑competitive, quality industrial goods that lower consumer costs and ease inflationary pressure. It added that deep integration between European high‑end equipment makers and Chinese manufacturing has been complementary and mutually beneficial, and that China’s manufacturing development supports global economic stability and Western industry rather than undermining it.

法国总统马克龙：政府应宣布针对在校学生的“强有力措施”。