On May 30 local time, Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for Iran's parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the maritime blockade of Iran "will eventually end, either through negotiations or military action."

CATL said its Chocolate battery-swap network had 1,650 stations across 127 cities as of May 2026. In under six months the network added more than 600 stations and expanded into 82 cities. CATL plans to form an 11-vertical by 9-horizontal expressway swap network by 2027 and expects Chocolate stations to exceed 3,000 and cover nearly 190 cities nationwide by end-2026.

May 30 in Sichuan, China Rare Earth Group GM Li Zhihui met Dongfang Electric chairman Luo Qianyi to discuss industrial coordination and joint technology development. Both expressed intent to deepen cooperation on new-materials development, frontier-tech joint R&D, rare-earth permanent magnet applications and domestic substitution to help safeguard China’s energy and strategic resource security.