Newsletter - Beta
China
June 25, 2026
June 25, 2026
On June 22, 2026, the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) guided-missile carrier Fujian (CV-18) transited the Taiwan Strait [[1 • Reuters]]. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense disclosed the transit within 24 hours; the operational move was embedded in a pressure campaign that had already been running for at lea…
On June 22, 2026, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) kept both legs of the Loan Prime Rate (LPR) unchanged for a thirteenth straight month, with the one-year LPR at 3.00% and the five-year LPR (the mortgage reference) at 3.50% [[1 • Reuters]]. The decision, posted by the CFETS-affiliated National Interbank Funding Cente…
The annual "6.18" mid-year shopping festival, originally a JD.com anniversary promotion that has expanded into China's second-largest e-commerce event after Singles' Day, fell in mid-2026 against a backdrop of collapsing household sentiment. Coverage of the 2026 cycle (a five-week marketing window that ran May 13 to Ju…
On Monday, June 22, 2026, Beijing executed a coordinated two-track retaliation against Washington by deploying both its Commerce Ministry (MOFCOM) export-control authorities and its Finance Ministry (MOF) procurement authorities simultaneously. MOFCOM placed ten U.S. industrial suppliers on China's Export Control List,…