Huatai-PineBridge said the China-Korea Semiconductor ETF will be suspended from market open on Aug. 27, 2026 until 10:30 on that day.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan, China’s new-energy vehicle industry jumped from the million-unit scale to the ten-million-unit scale: annual sales rose from 1.367 mln to 16.49 mln and NEVs’ share of new-car sales climbed from 5.4pct to 47.9pct. China now accounts for over 70pct of global output of new-energy vehicles, power batteries and key materials, with products sold in more than 100 countries and regions. For the 15th Five-Year period, Chinese authorities will push to raise product supply quality, advance pilots for intelligent connected-vehicle admission and road testing and for car–road–cloud integration, and strengthen supporting use environments to address consumer adoption concerns.

A former U.S. diplomat said both U.S. and Iranian statements on the Strait of Hormuz are inaccurate: U.S. claims the strait is open are not entirely correct, and Iran’s assertions that it has closed the waterway are also false. Iran lacks the physical capability to fully seal the strait and instead relies on coercion—threats and missile strikes against unarmed merchant vessels—to try to compel compliance. Not all shipping is obeying Iran’s threats; some ships switch off AIS, run at night and hug the Omani coast. The U.S. military is deploying assets to protect vessels where possible.