Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Central Economic Work Conference

2. Managing capital

3. Barry Naughton on the regulatory storm

4. G7 angers the PRC

5. Taiwan speech at democracy summit censored over a map

6. Another reminder that coal is not going away

7. Zhejiang outbreak

8. Push back on hypothesis the pandemic started in Wuhan market

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