Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Party Centenary events

2. People’s Leader Xi

3. Politburo study session on using “red resources” to carry on the “red blood”

4. Xi-Putin meeting

5. Hong Kong

6. Vaccine diplomacy

7. Virus origin struggle

8. War on crypto just getting started

Vacation Notice: There will be no newsletter Wednesday or Thursday this week. I plan to publish as normal July 5th, even though it is a holiday here in the US.

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