Commentary today is embedded in several of the essential eight items below. I also have included a couple of pages from a China-related draft presidential order in item 3 that may be of interest, even if I do not expect it will be signed in these chaotic remaining days of the Trump Administration.

Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. The Outbreak

2. “United States Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific” declassified

3. US-China

4. Another signal the PBoC trying to thread the monetary policy needle

5. Hong Kong

6. Sinovac’s confusing efficacy data

7. Tesla China

8. Looking for Uighur faces

Thanks for reading.