Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Apple Daily targeted

2. Tiangong space station may get a Party branch

3. Liu He now responsible for tech self-reliance?

4. Origin narrative struggle

5. More on the Amb Lu Shaye interview

6. Bytedance’s billions

7. Party History in print and drink

8. Chinese masculinity

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