On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Imagine a Facebook group being created asking people to commit mass suicide on Dec 21. Thats ewxactly what happenned. The group has since been taken doen. But police say they are truinmg to contact all the 190 members which of course if not possible as people from different countries had joined the group.
The South China Morning Post said the person who started the group had written that it was "meant to be an inside joke", where people talked humorously about ways to take their lives.
The police said they would like to provide free counseling for both students and parents. To help prevent such acts. Apparently there was a female member of the group who posted pictures of herself trying to commit suicide in school.
What started out as a joke could have proved to be very costly. Things have been stopped and providing free suicide prevention methods I think is a good initiative.
The South China Morning Post said the person who started the group had written that it was "meant to be an inside joke", where people talked humorously about ways to take their lives.
The police said they would like to provide free counseling for both students and parents. To help prevent such acts. Apparently there was a female member of the group who posted pictures of herself trying to commit suicide in school.
What started out as a joke could have proved to be very costly. Things have been stopped and providing free suicide prevention methods I think is a good initiative.
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