Democracy and institutional competition; Tweaking carbon peaking?; LinkedIn delinks

I hope the folks who joined the new Sinocism Discord server are enjoying it. If you have not already joined you can do so using this link. I am also going to start a regular weekly thread tomorrow, am curious if the Discord server has cannibalized that. There is a fair amount of commentary interspersed in the Essential Eight, I could not figure out to weave it all together up here.

Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Central conference on work related to people's congresses

2. Did Li Keqiang disclose that the power mess is causing adjustments to carbon peaking roadmap?

3. Just how bad is household debt in China?

4. Soft Land auctions

5. PLA and tech decoupling

6. LinkedIn delinks from China

7. Saturday mission to space station

8. Carnegie reports on China’s influence

Thanks for reading.