Financial Stability and Development Committee on Bitcoin and financial risks; RIP Yuan Longping; "Lying flat-ism 躺平主义"

Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Financial Stability and Development Committee on Bitcoin and financial risks

2. Bureaucratic reforms for S&T self-reliance, more pain coming for education companies

3. RIP Yuan Longping

4. Lab leak hypothesis

5. More efforts to tamp down commodity prices

6. Another Tibet White paper

7. US-China

8. Yang Jiechi visiting Russia

Thanks for reading