According to Al Arabiya, Israel's chief of staff is inspecting multiple locations in southern Syria.

U.S. President Trump told reporters at the White House on the 19th he expects to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year. When asked about an autumn meeting he replied in the affirmative and said he knows Kim well and gets along with him.

Shanghai municipal government office issued the Digital Shanghai 15th Five-Year Plan, calling to optimize cross-border data flow mechanisms and extend the 'negative list + operational guidelines' model to more industries for data exports. The plan proposes exploring interregional personal information transfer standards, building rule‑mutual‑recognition 'aggregate‑to‑aggregate' cross-border data transfer service facilities to scale standardized compliance services, accelerating service‑center deployment, strengthening policy consulting and preliminary verification of negative‑list materials, and advancing multilateral and bilateral pilot projects to facilitate cross-border data cooperation.