US President Trump said he had very good talks with Putin and Zelensky.

On June 17 at a regular briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian was asked about reports the US Commerce Department had deferred adding several Chinese firms to its export-control entity list. Lin said China opposes broadening the national-security concept and the abuse of entity lists and other export-control tools to suppress Chinese companies, and urged the US to stop politicizing, instrumentalizing and weaponizing economic, trade and technology issues.

Prime Minister Albanese said he met today with Shell’s global chair to discuss measures to help the industry purchase more fuel and boost fuel inflows into Australia to secure domestic supply.