China's State Council executive meeting, chaired by Li Qiang, reviewed progress on building a modern distribution system and directed authorities to close shortfalls in distribution and logistics infrastructure, vigorously expand multimodal transport to further reduce logistics costs, strengthen distribution governance capacity, and promote new business formats, models and scenarios.

Economy and Finance Minister KIUCHI said on Friday the government will not pre-communicate its preferences on how the Bank of Japan should set interest rates and will not advise on timing or size of rate moves, reiterating that the BOJ decides specific monetary policy tools. His remarks sought to calm markets after a draft economic blueprint urged “appropriately guiding monetary policy” and cited a legal clause requiring the BOJ to align with the government’s economic agenda while omitting language on the bank’s legal independence—phrasing that had raised concern the dovish-leaning Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi government might pressure the BOJ to delay tightening. KIUCHI added the government and the BOJ should nonetheless share assessments of the economy, prices and financial conditions.

伊朗議會議長卡利巴夫：衝突不會以伊朗屈服結束。