"See one, catch one" outbreak control; Coal price controls and gas shortages; Taiwan; GDI; Pax Hack

Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Beijing locking down as outbreak spreads

2. Price controls and crackdowns to increase coal supply?

3. Gas shortages now too

4. Anger at US efforts to help Taiwan at the UN

5. More US-China

6. Signs Internet controls to tighten

7. Xi pushing the Global Development Initiative

8. PAX payment terminals used for cyber attacks and cyber espionage?

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