Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Xi’s Qinghai inspection

2. Vaccines and the difficulty of China fully reopening

3. Inflation and talk of price controls

4. Qinghai says it will end crypto mining

5. 100 Years of the CPC's Foreign Work

6. US Senate passes US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021

7. TikTok and WeChat may have new US challenges

8. G-7

Thanks for reading.