Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Poverty alleviation victory ceremony Thursday

2. Chen Yixin on the Party history study campaign

3. Hong Kong

4. CCP global human rights campaign

5. Hu Xijin sees a clash of civilizations

6. WHO investigation

7. Mekong flows drop due to Yunnan dam

8. Bytedance has more employees than Tencent

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