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Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, attends the opening meeting of the 15th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th CPPCC National Committee in Beijing, capital of China, March 1, 2026. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)

BEIJING — The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee convened a session of its standing committee on Sunday in Beijing to prepare for the upcoming annual session of the CPPCC National Committee.

Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, attended the meeting.

CPPCC members reviewed and adopted a decision on convening the fourth session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, set to start on March 4 in Beijing.

They heard a report on the work of the CPPCC National Committee in 2025. They also heard explanations on the drafting of the work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and on the drafting of a report on the handling of the proposals from the previous session of the CPPCC National Committee, as well as explanations on relevant issues.

[Barcelona, Spain, March 1, 2026] At MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei will unveil three key capabilities of its Agentic Communication Network (ACN): digital identity management, dynamic group communication, and collaboration task session management. These capabilities are designed to support the complex communication needs of future multi-agent collaboration and drive innovation in new service scenarios for the mobile AI era.

As AI technologies become deeply integrated with communications networks, hundreds of millions of AI agents will gradually connect to networks and become primary entities for information exchange.

To address this trend, Huawei’s ACN enhances native network capabilities, transforming traditional connection infrastructure into a powerful communication and collaboration foundation for AI agents. The ACN creates an efficient, intelligent “information overpass” for agents operating in both physical and digital spaces.

Digital Identity Management: Assigning Unique Trusted Digital Identities to Agents to Build a Trusted and Controllable Communication Basis for Agents

To accommodate large-scale agent access, ACN extends beyond traditional SIM-based user identity management to support digital identity authentication and attribute registration for agents. Agents can register their profiles, including service capabilities and functional attributes, with the network. When a service intent is triggered, ACN can accurately discover target agents and grant communication permissions based on multi-dimensional attributes.

This mechanism ensures both parties have trusted identities, clear intent, and controllable behavior. In practical terms, it means agents know who they’re communicating with, what each can do, and that they can trust one another. This lays the foundation for refined communication management between agents.

Dynamic Group Communication: Creating Task-specific Communication Groups to Build a Secure Space for Efficient Collaboration and Data Isolation

Traditional networks primarily support north-south connections between terminals and service platforms. However, agent collaboration scenarios significantly increase demand for east-west interactions between agents.

The ACN enables data exchange and processing between agents directly within the network. Based on specific collaboration tasks, ACN dynamically generates temporary networks for rapid communication between agents in the same task group, while ensuring complete network isolation between different groups. By creating temporary “dedicated chat groups” for each task, ACN achieves efficient collaboration within groups and full isolation outside them. This approach prevents data from leaving the network domain, ensures privacy protection, and builds trusted, controllable communication spaces for agents.

Collaboration Task Session Management: Establishing End-to-End Task Sessions for Agent Intent to Build a Bridge for Cross-Ecosystem Agent Interconnection

Beyond providing data connectivity, ACN enables task-level collaboration between agents. Based on agent intent, ACN supports intelligent matching of target agents and establishes agent-to-agent (A2A) task sessions, achieving end-to-end collaboration from the application layer to the network layer.

This capability breaks down barriers between ecosystems, terminal types, and network domains. ACN functions as a precise network dispatcher, creating dedicated “collaboration private lines” for agents that support interconnection and interworking across domains, platforms, and scenarios.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continue driving ACN technology innovation while working with global customers and industry partners to explore new service scenarios for agents in the mobile AI era, helping agents integrate more seamlessly into our daily lives.

During MWC2026, Huawei invites global customers and partners to visit the exhibition area to discuss the future of agent communication.

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/minisite/events/mwc2026/

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and Dubai Financial Market will be closed on March 2 and March 3, the UAE Capital Market Authority said in an emailed statement. “The Authority will continue to monitor developments in the region and assess the situation on an ongoing basis, taking any further measures as necessary,” it added.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi have faced hundreds of missiles and drone attacks from Iran, which has been responding to an onslaught from the US and Israel, since Saturday morning. Most have been intercepted and there are few reports of casualties and damage to multiple areas across both cities. But the attacks are causing panic among residents and pose a huge threat to the UAE’s economy and status as a stable financial, logistics and tourism hub.

“US-Israel attacks on Iran threaten demand shocks for UAE property sales, risking absorption of 350,000 units in new supply, as well as 120 million footfalls into Dubai Mall and tourism into retail and hospitality,” Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Edmond Christou and Salome Skhirtladze wrote in a note. “UAE developers, such as Emaar, are vulnerable as are UAE banks with greater cyclical exposure.”

The UAE stock exchanges’ market capitalization stands at $1.1 trillion, making it the 19th largest in the world. It holds a 1.4% weight on MSCI Inc.’s emerging markets benchmark. 

Read More: Dubai’s Worst Nightmare Unfolds as Iran Strikes Neighbors 

The market closures are unusual in the country. Outside regularly-scheduled holidays, UAE bourses are typically shuttered only during periods of national mourning, such as one that followed the death of President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in May 2022.

Still, it’s not uncommon for countries to shut their stock markets during times of uncertainty and turmoil. Among recent examples, Turkey suspended trading for a week after an earthquake in 2023 and the market soared upon reopening. Russia halted its market for about a month in 2022 after its invasion of Ukraine. In Greece, the Athens Stock Exchange shut in 2015 for five weeks during the sovereign debt crisis and plunged when trading resumed.

Elsewhere in the Gulf, the Kuwait Capital Markets Authority said the country’s stock exchange will resume trading on March 2 after halting operations on Sunday.

KARACHI:

Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance President Malik Shehzad Awan has strongly criticised the recent increase in petroleum prices and warned that transporters may announce a countrywide strike after Eid following consultations with stakeholders across Pakistan.

In a statement, Awan said transporters across the country condemned the hike in fuel prices, noting that diesel prices had increased by Rs23-24 per litre and petrol by Rs13 per litre over the past two months. Despite the rise in fuel costs during the holy month of Ramazan, he said, transporters had not increased fares.

He added that higher fuel prices affect not only transporters but every citizen, as they trigger a wave of inflation. According to him, both the federal government and the Punjab government were pushing transporters into a difficult position. He recalled that transporters had previously observed a 10-day nationwide strike due to what he described as flawed policies.

Awan further alleged that agreements reached with the government were not being implemented.