Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Another Ant-related investigation

2. Propaganda rollout of Xi’s Guangxi tour

3. PRC population already declining?

4. PRC and India’s Covid crisis

5. Security work around the 100th anniversary is going to be intense

6. Australia is “sick”

7. Putting a price on “ecological products”

8. New report on China’s Arctic ambitions

Thanks for reading.