President Trump said the US now only needs to make a final decision on Iran, asking whether to “win” by a milder approach or a less-mild one, and added that “progress is going very well.”

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) said at a State Council briefing on Oct. 21 that it is coordinating with other departments to strengthen top-level planning to reduce climate-change risks and damage. The MEE reiterated a dual emphasis on mitigation and adaptation, and said it will bolster climate monitoring, early warning and risk management, raise adaptation capacity in priority sectors, and integrate climate adaptation across economic and social planning while improving protection and health adaptation for vulnerable groups. All 31 provincial-level regions have issued adaptation action plans, and the public health sector has published a National Climate Change Health Adaptation Action Plan. The MEE is drafting reform documents to strengthen coordination and accelerate a full-chain closed loop — observation and forecasting, risk assessment, adaptation actions, outcome feedback and iterative optimization — to advance climate-resilient development and support a climate-adaptive society.

At the midday close, China's main futures contracts were mixed: container shipping Europe route fell nearly 8%; rapeseed meal and live hogs dropped over 3%; eggs, industrial silicon and coking coal fell more than 2%; glass and red dates declined about 2%. On the upside, fuel oil and benzene rose over 2%; styrene (EB), SC crude, PVC, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and lithium carbonate gained more than 1%.