Abstract of in the present day’s Important Eight:
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Taiwan and Pelosi – The US Home begins its summer season recess after the final vote this Friday. To date there aren’t any indications that Speaker Pelosi will cancel her reported go to to Taiwan, however there have been loads of leaks that the Biden Administration doesn’t need her to go. One factor to look at might be whether or not the PRC’s public, authoritative warnings enhance in quantity and depth earlier than the top of the July. Until there’s some type of credible off-ramp for her I feel she’s going to go, that Xi will overreact, after which there might be a disaster. US officers are frightened not a lot as a result of they suppose a visit could scramble plans for a Biden-Xi name earlier than the top of July, however relatively resulting from the truth that there are legitimate causes to imagine we could also be headed into essentially the most harmful interval of US-China relations, and PRC-Taiwan relations, in a long time.
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Outbreaks and vaccines – The deputy head of the Nationwide Well being Fee stated that the nation’s prime leaders have …