Today’s top items:

1. PRC vaccinations

2. EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) near

3. "Worshipping America" and "Kneeling to America"

4. US-China

5. New report on the Chinese LGBT movement

6. ASPI on WeChat’s influence

I hope to see many of you in tomorrow’s open discussion.

Holiday schedule: I am planning to send a newsletter next Monday December 21 and then resume publishing Monday January 5, though if interesting things happen during that period I may send out a short newsletter. We are not going anywhere this year, and like all of us I need a mental break, but China only shuts down for a couple of days around the New Year.

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