Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Economic Daily Page 1 - “One-way appreciation expectations of the RMB are not sustainable”

2. US amends, expands blacklist of PRC firms banned from US investment

3. More on origin tracing hypotheses

4. Water woes

5. Tesla blowing up in China?

6. PRC borders to fully reopen 2H 2022?

7. Vaccines

8. Latest US surveillance scandal another gift to the PRC

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