South Korea's KOSPI opened down 12.32 points, or 0.18%, at 6,730.42 on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each slipped less than 1%.

China's Erenhot rail port has handled more than 26,000 China–Europe freight trains via the Central Corridor as of Aug. 24, 2026, railway authorities said. Erenhot is the corridor's sole port. Since the first train in 2013, cumulative throughput hit 1,000 by 2018, 5,000 by 2020, 10,000 by 2022, 20,000 by 2025 and 26,000 now. Year-to-date through Aug. 24 there were 3,157 trains carrying 3.0038 mln tonnes of cargo, up 10.2% and 27.0% YoY respectively. The time to add 1,000 trains has shortened from five years for the initial 1,000 to under three months most recently.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said it will boost network and data security, deepen protection of critical information infrastructure and important datasets, and raise security standards in AI, the industrial internet and connected vehicles. MIIT urged building a network-and-data security framework for new-type industrialization and improving network resilience.