France and Saudi Arabia signed joint defense and tourism agreements.

Nikkei reports Japan’s Green Transformation Acceleration Agency (GX) has committed JPY20 bln (~$125m) in public‑private funding to two startups—Kyoto Fusion Engineering and JEPLAN—focused on nuclear fusion and plastic recycling. The move is part of a broader government plan to mobilize JPY370 tln (over $2.3 tln) of public and private capital across 17 strategic sectors by fiscal 2040 under Prime Minister Takaichi’s growth and decarbonization agenda. Details of the two investments are expected soon; the public funding is intended to crowd in private investment and accelerate commercialization of advanced technologies.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has drafted an Action Plan to strengthen supply–demand matching for spatio-temporal information terminals and promote integrated applications and plans to issue it this year. MIIT deputy director Shi Huikang said the Beidou satellite navigation system is a key space information infrastructure: by end-2025 domestic Beidou‑compatible chips and modules had cumulative shipments of nearly 2.6 bln units, the installed base of Beidou‑capable terminal products exceeded 2.2 bln devices/sets, and the satellite navigation industry’s 2025 output totaled 629.0 bln yuan, up 9.24% YoY.