Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. More Party leadership for universities

2. Xi at the Leaders Summit on Climate

3. Provincial leaders on national security

4. US-China

5. Chips

6. No sign of a property tax

7. Xinjiang

8. To the dogs

The March 2021 China’s Political Discourse, written by the China Media Project and published at Sinocism, is now online. From the introduction:

The major political events in China in March 2021 were the annual “two sessions” (两会) of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), held from March 5 to 11. As expected, these meetings drove up the occurrence of certain central and regional leaders in the official People’s Daily newspaper and provincial newspapers, as well as important banner phrases for leaders from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, and other phrases in the mainstream CCP discourse. 

Perhaps the most defining event in March, however, was the high-level exchange between China and the United States, held on the 18th and 19th in Anch…