CENTCOM said tonight commercial vessels continued to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular briefing that a draft passed at the LDP general affairs meeting on the 9th calling for revisions to Japan’s three security documents exposes attempts by some forces in Japan to pursue remilitarization. He accused the draft of needlessly smearing China’s routine military activity and deliberately inflating regional tensions to deceive the Japanese public and the international community and to provide a pretext for accelerating remilitarization.

Speaking at an HKEX Future Tech Summit in Shenzhen, HKEX CEO Chen Yiting said market momentum has stayed strong this year, with IPO activity and average daily secondary-market turnover up markedly year-to-date. She added that over the past decade liquidity has flowed from traditional industries into innovation: the technology sector’s market share rose from 15% to 44% and turnover has increased more than sevenfold, reflecting a shift of investor attention toward high-growth sectors and Hong Kong’s transition toward a tech- and new-economy–driven market.