An Israeli newspaper, citing sources, reports Prime Minister Netanyahu told President Trump Israel is not bound by the agreement’s Lebanon clause and will not withdraw forces from Lebanon. Netanyahu said the IDF will remain deployed at its positions in Lebanon, continue operations from those deployments and will respond to any Hezbollah attacks.

The New York Post reported Trump threatened to impose a 100% tariff on French wine over France's digital services tax.

Hong Kong’s government opened a public consultation on its first five-year economic and social plan for 2026–30, proposing measures to boost high-quality development as an international financial centre. Key market measures include deeper integration of equities, bonds, asset-management, wealth-management, insurance and risk-management markets with mainland capital markets; steps to consolidate Hong Kong’s role as the global offshore renminbi centre; building a commodity trading ecosystem; and widening cross-border financing channels to ease state-owned enterprises’ overseas expansion and attract inbound foreign capital. The plan also promotes Financial+ initiatives — including fintech, green finance and trade finance — to deepen sector linkages and support Beijing’s objective of accelerating the construction of a financial powerhouse.