The PRC is on holiday today for the Dragon Boat Festival, things should be back to normal Tuesday June 15.

Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Gas explosion jills at least 25

2. G-7

3. Nato Summit

4. Interview with Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov

5. Covid-19 origins

6. Zhang Weiwei advocating changes to PRC Internet policy

7. Blinken and Yang have another chat

8. Reports of…