Politburo study session; Regulation on Exit and Entry Administration; US-China; AI; Scarborough Shoal/Huangyan Dao

I thought I would be on vacation already but there too many interesting things over the last few days to not do one more newsletter before heading off on my version of the “Beidaihe Break”. The Beidaihe Break has officially started, signaled by the CCTV report on Cai Qi visiting “experts vacationing in Beidaihe”: