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Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Guo Shengkun on Peaceful China

2. 2022 GDP target to be below 6%?

3. Europe-US and China-Europe

4. Summit For Democracy has Beijing’s attention

5. Understanding China conference

6. IOC says it spoke with Peng Shuai again

7. Twitter and Meta/Facebook disclose PRC disinformation operations

8. Tragic bullying

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