Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Top economic policymakers speak

2. Zhejiang designated “demonstration zone for common prosperity”

3. Anti-foreign sanctions law passes, goes into effect

4. New data security law

5. Another US-China phone call

6. Do the PRC and Russia cooperate on digital propaganda?

7. Tragic case of an America teacher jailed in Shanghai

8. Xinjiang

Thanks for reading. I hope to see many of you in tomorrow’s weekly discussion.