Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Xi inspects Guangxi, visits Long March battle memorial

2. Xi commissions new warships

3. National Security and counter-espionage

4. More anti-monopoly pain

5. US-PRC

6. EU stiffening towards the PRC?

7. Australia-PRC

8. Celebrations for Chloe Zhao’s Oscar win restricted

Every year my high school holds a lecture on US-China issues. This year’s 38th Annual John Fisher Zeidman ’79 Memorial Lecture is Tuesday evening at 7 PM ET and features Dr. Erika Lee. It is free to everyone, you just need to register here to get the zoom link.

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