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...
The would-be terrorist who attempted to ignite an explosive on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit confessed to authorities that he is a follower of Bin Laden but only on Twitter.
According to authorities that twitter link does not prove that he is working on instructions from Bin Laden.
"We looked at his Twitter account," one interrogator said. "And while it's true that he follows bin Laden, he also follows Alyssa Milano and Shaq."
Investigators further refused to comment on whether he accepted Bin laden's request to play Farmville on Facebook.
According to authorities that twitter link does not prove that he is working on instructions from Bin Laden.
"We looked at his Twitter account," one interrogator said. "And while it's true that he follows bin Laden, he also follows Alyssa Milano and Shaq."
Investigators further refused to comment on whether he accepted Bin laden's request to play Farmville on Facebook.
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