Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Apple Daily closes

2. Xi video chats with the astronauts

3. Zhang Weiwei on telling “Chinese political stories”

4. Australia-China

5. US-China

6. More pressure on Commodities

7. Did the WHO miss some data in Wuhan?

8. Wuhan Military World Games, Ft. Detrick and Zhao Lijian

Thanks for reading.