I put commentary in some of the sections below.

Today’s Essential Eight:

1. Economic data

2. Regulators taking away the stock market’s shot glass?

3. Xi courts global CEOs

4. US Attorney General Barr’s China speech

5. US may ban visas for CCP members and their family members

6. TikTok

7. Tesla and PRC technological self-reliance

8. Poverty alleviation

Thanks for reading.