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Sharp China: Big Picture Questions for 2024; Taiwan and the Philippines and Tentative Stability; Our Favorite Memories from 2023

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Standing Committee meeting on floods; Surprise rate cut; Plenum study guide; PRC-Russia; US Amb. Burns on US-China

Summary of today’s Essential Eight:Standing Committee meeting on the flooding - The Standing Committee met to "study and arrange work related to flood control and disaster relief", as well as to discuss "other matters 会议还研究了其他事项" that were not disclosed, as they are usually not. Readouts from Standing Committee meetings are relatively rare, and happen for especially serious issues. The August 17, 2023 Standing Committee meeting was also publicized, and had as its theme "to study and arrange work on flood prevention and relief as well as post-disaster restoration and reconstruction". Clearly the flooding in parts of the PRC this summer is getting quite serious, and has come earlier than in previous years. As the readout says “China's climate conditions are abnormal, with frequent and prolonged heavy rainfall, early and rapid development of river floods, and some areas repeatedly hit by heavy rains, making the flood control situation severe and complex”.The CCTV Evening News report on the meeting was the host reading the readout, with no video from inside the meeting. The only time I remember them ever releasing video from inside a Standing Committee meeting was from the meeting on January 25, 2020 as the pandemic was exploding.It is unclear whether today’s meeting means there will not also be the monthly Politburo meeting, that if precedent holds should be about economic work and possible policy tweaks for the rest of the year. Investors and other would be disappointed if that meeting does not happen in the next few days. I expect it will still happen, and the good news is we should know the answer in six days at the most.
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Dan Wootton Outspoken is the home of no bull news – the real stories and opinions the MSM are censoring. For the past 15 years, at News of the World, ITV, The Sun, The Daily Mail and GB News, Dan saw, bit by bit, how political and corporate pressures resulted in free thought being extinguished, with views that didn't fit the corporate narrative being censored. Now he brings his exclusives and commentary on politics, the culture war and the British Royal Family directly to his Outspoken Network
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