PLA ideological and political education; Xi calls Merkel; Taiwan; Demography

Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. New guidelines on promoting ideological and political education in the PLA

2. Xi works Merkel

3. US-China

4. Taiwan

5. TSMC making chips for PLA hypersonic weapons development

6. Demography

7. Hong Kong

8. Campaigns to intimidate overseas researchers

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