Kuwaiti authorities condemned what they called repeated Iranian attacks on Kuwaiti territory and said they reserve the right to take all necessary measures to defend the country’s sovereignty.

Qatar's foreign ministry summoned Iran's deputy ambassador and delivered a formal protest after a Qatari liquefied natural gas carrier was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. Doha demanded Iran immediately cease actions that endanger regional security and threaten international shipping and global energy supplies, and said it reserves the right to take measures under international law to protect its interests. The démarche comes as security tensions in the Strait of Hormuz continue to escalate.

The PBOC's MPC met on July 4 for its Q2 2026 (113th) session and recommended integrating incremental and stock policy measures while strengthening forward-looking guidance, flexibility and targeting. The committee said policy intensity, pace and timing should be calibrated to domestic and external economic and financial conditions and market developments. It called for maintaining ample liquidity so aggregate social financing and money-supply (M2) growth align with economic growth and price-level expectations. The MPC urged stronger policy-rate guidance, improved market-based rate formation and transmission, greater market-rate pricing discipline, and tighter execution and supervision of interest-rate policy.