Refinitiv reported Trump spoke by phone on Sunday with Yemen's president; the Yemeni president requested US support against Houthi forces, and Trump did not pledge military assistance.

Sept 21 — Sichuan provincial government and China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Chengdu. The pact, covering the 15th Five-Year Plan period, aims to optimize CGN’s investment footprint in Sichuan, accelerate clean-energy project development and construction, expand high-end energy equipment manufacturing, and build nuclear medicine and other industrial clusters and supply chains to support Sichuan’s industrial modernization.

Bundesbank says German economy will expand modestly in Q3 and recover in Q4.