Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. PRC border restrictions likely for another year

2. Farewell, Cui Tiankai

3. Foreign Affairs on China

4. Hong Kong, PRC

5. Foreign influencers wanted to help tell China’s story

6. The “blame Canada” stratagem

7. New report on Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location

8. The Lancet tries to untangle COVID-19 origin investigation conflicts

Thanks for reading.