State media synchronized around Xi Jinping's directive on normalizing east-west collaboration, with identical headlines across Xinhua, People's Daily, CCTV, and others from 11:00 AM onward. The directive emphasized coordinated regional development and common prosperity, echoing the party-building doctrine campaign of previous days. Earlier, the party-building thought narrative continued with synchronized headlines on 'studying and implementing' the doctrine, while China released a white paper on global governance. External sources focused on G7 statements on East and South China Seas, Taiwan Strait, and trade imbalances, as well as Taiwan's Himars rocket launch and a potential US shift toward Hong Kong.