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...
An earthquake measuring 7.0 has hit Haiti. Causing wide spread destruction. The earthquake demolished dozens of building and left countless people dead or injured.
The island nation of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with one of the weakest infrastructures, now faces near-catastrophic damage from an earthquake.
The first pics of the destruction began to appear first on Twitter and Facebook.
Thirteen aftershocks above 4.5 have happened since the initial 7.0 quake hit.
We have attached videos of the aftermath
The New York Times News Blog gave these useful links to follow people on Twitter who are providing real-time updates on the earthquake.This Twitter list of users of the social network who are in Haiti or providing useful information on the aftermath of the earthquake there. TwitPic account which has images of victims of the quake
The island nation of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with one of the weakest infrastructures, now faces near-catastrophic damage from an earthquake.
The first pics of the destruction began to appear first on Twitter and Facebook.
Thirteen aftershocks above 4.5 have happened since the initial 7.0 quake hit.
We have attached videos of the aftermath
The New York Times News Blog gave these useful links to follow people on Twitter who are providing real-time updates on the earthquake.This Twitter list of users of the social network who are in Haiti or providing useful information on the aftermath of the earthquake there. TwitPic account which has images of victims of the quake
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