State media maintained synchronized coverage of Xi Jinping's directive to apply the 'Yiwu development experience' as a model for localized high-quality growth, with identical headlines across People's Daily, Xinhua, China Daily, Global Times, and others throughout the day. This domestic policy focus was paralleled by growing attention to the Iran-US conflict: VOA Chinese reported Trump ordering the Navy to fire on Iranian mine-laying ships in the Strait of Hormuz, while SCMP and BBC Chinese discussed potential US decline and implications for Trump's China visit. People's Daily framed US hegemony as a source of global instability. External outlets also covered China's dark compute power estimates, Anthropic's Mythos cybersecurity implications, and PwC's settlement over Evergrande fraud.