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TREE NEWS update: China’s Foreign Ministry declined to confirm whether it has fully resumed rare earth supplies to the United States, after a US official said last week the commitment made during earlier talks had not been fully implemented. Spokesman Guo Jiakun told a regular briefing that specific questions should be directed to Chinese competent authorities, adding that Beijing is committed to the stability and security of global critical minerals supply chains. He did not say whether China would extend the November 10 deadline for expanded rare earth export restrictions.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese President Xi Jinping has replied to letters from young students at 10 US universities who took part in a China-US youth exchange program. The reply was sent in recent days. No further details of its contents were given.

TREE NEWS update: Liu Liehong, Party secretary and director of China’s National Data Administration, inspected Gansu province from September 16 to 17, 2026, visiting PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical, Yongcheng Hengyi, China Electronics Wanwei and Silk Road Information Port (Gansu Data Group). A symposium in Lanzhou drew participation from Lanzhou and Qingyang municipal authorities, the provincial development and reform commission, Kingsoft Cloud, China Mobile Gansu, Beijing Qinhuai Data, China Energy Engineering Green Digital Technology and Zhichuang Lantu (Gansu), which briefed on their work.

TREE NEWS update: Eighteen suspects in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise have been flown from Haiti to the United States aboard a military aircraft and will face trial in Florida, US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quinones announced on the 20th. The transfer marks the “next major phase” in holding those responsible for the killing accountable.

TREE NEWS update: Porsche’s chief executive told employees in an internal memo that the company does not plan an additional 4,000 job cuts. The note addressed staff directly on the scale of further reductions. No figure for previously announced cuts was given.

TREE NEWS update: Search and rescue operations ended at the site of a factory fire at a textile company in Shunde, Guangdong province, where eight people died and one was injured. Authorities said the on-site rescue effort has concluded. No further details were immediately released.

TREE NEWS reports: President Trump instructed the Pentagon to prepare airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi forces after a Sept. 17 call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but by midday Sept. 20 had reversed course, unnamed US officials said. The strike package had been approved and US warplanes had been loaded with munitions before the order was pulled, with Washington now saying it will not strike the Houthis “at least for now.”

TREE NEWS reports: China’s treasury futures closed mixed on the day, with the 30-year main contract up 0.15% while shorter tenors slipped. The 10-year main contract finished flat at 0.00%, and the 5-year and 2-year main contracts each fell 0.02%.

TREE NEWS update: Canada’s International Trade Tribunal terminated its second sunset review of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules and laminates originating in or imported from China on Sept. 17, revoking the duty orders. The Canada Border Services Agency will no longer collect the anti-dumping and countervailing duties on the products covered.

TREE NEWS update: A Seoul court on the afternoon of the 21st sentenced several former South Korean senior military commanders over their roles in ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law insurrection. Former counterintelligence commander Yeo In-hyung received 18 years, ex-capital defense commander Lee Jin-woo 15 years, former intelligence commander Moon Sang-ho 12 years, ex-martial law commander Park An-su 10 years and former special warfare commander Kwak Jong-keun 9 years.

TREE NEWS update: France’s finance minister said the government will likely extend means-tested fuel subsidies from October 1, but will not introduce broad tax cuts on gasoline and diesel. Officials will meet the prime minister on Monday evening to discuss fuel supply and measures to help households with rising costs. He said he favors automatic renewal of the means-tested subsidy, adding that pressure to control the budget deficit limits room for broad support.

TREE NEWS update: More than 300 Chinese and foreign companies took part in the China-ASEAN Expo’s international procurement matchmaking session in Nanning on September 19, generating over 260 supply-demand pairings. The event, hosted by the expo secretariat, arranged one-on-one meetings across high-tech, green building materials and home goods, agricultural products and food, food processing and packaging equipment, light consumer goods and machinery. About 200 domestic exhibitors and suppliers joined 110 international buyers from Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.

TREE NEWS update: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation conducted a special pre-Mid-Autumn Festival inspection of mooncakes, with 97.67% of sampled products passing quality checks. The regulator said the overall safety status of mooncake products remains stable. The results were released ahead of the holiday, when mooncake sales peak nationwide.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25 at the invitation of US President Donald Trump. The trip was announced by Xinhua. It marks a direct high-level engagement between the two leaders amid ongoing US-China economic and trade tensions.

TREE NEWS reports: European semiconductor shares climbed 2% to 3% on the session, with STMicroelectronics, ASML and ASM International leading the advance. The move lifted the region’s chip sector as a group, with the three named companies pacing gains among the top performers.

TREE NEWS reports: Combined turnover on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges reached 2.031513 trillion yuan on September 21. Shanghai accounted for 946.819 billion yuan, Shenzhen for 1.084694 trillion yuan, and the ChiNext board for 525.256 billion yuan.

TREE NEWS update: The Agricultural Development Bank of China issued 26 billion yuan of bonds in five tranches on the same day, including 20 billion yuan of 182-day notes at a 1.3324% yield and 80 billion yuan of 3-year notes at 1.4256%. The 10-year, 9 billion yuan tranche priced at 1.7729% with a marginal bid-to-cover of 128.89 times, while the 5-year, 5 billion yuan tranche priced at 1.5022%.

TREE NEWS reports: European equities opened higher on the day, with the Euro Stoxx 50 up 0.77% at the open. Germany’s DAX rose 0.73%, France’s CAC 40 gained 0.58% and the UK’s FTSE 100 added 0.22%.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s Shanghai Composite Index closed 0.97% higher at 3949.91, with the Shenzhen Component up 0.65% at 13730.02 and the ChiNext Index up 0.80% at 3399.59. The CSI 300 rose 0.71% to 4539.57, the STAR 50 gained 0.29% to 1657.48, the CSI 500 added 0.65% to 7850.48 and the CSI 1000 climbed 1.02% to 7766.33.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s commodity futures closed mixed, with pulp and lithium carbonate main contracts each rising more than 3%. Pure benzene and bitumen gained over 2%, while peanut, glass and cotton yarn rose more than 1%. Crude oil fell over 4% and rapeseed meal dropped more than 2%.