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...
Thousands of people have begun an internet-based protest on Facebook, against the government of Saudi Arabia and their handling of the floods. It has been reported that more than a 103 people have died in flooding.
"The deaths have been blamed on poor construction of houses and infrastructure like bridges, and residents of the city say the government had been made aware of allegations that they were of poor construction."
The flooding happened in the western city of Jeddah right in the middle of the Hajj season None of the pilgrims have been hurt but mostly local citizens have suffered in the worst flood to have hit in years.
Facebook has become the medium of protest as there are not many other avenues to do the same.
"The deaths have been blamed on poor construction of houses and infrastructure like bridges, and residents of the city say the government had been made aware of allegations that they were of poor construction."
The flooding happened in the western city of Jeddah right in the middle of the Hajj season None of the pilgrims have been hurt but mostly local citizens have suffered in the worst flood to have hit in years.
Facebook has become the medium of protest as there are not many other avenues to do the same.
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