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...
See what happens to people who run for public office and openly post things to Twitter that is later regretted. A Republican candidate for an open Minnesota state, John Perry, is apologizing for comments made on President Barak Obama and Democrats.
One of the posts on businessman Mike Perry account read " He is a power hungry black man"., and the other said "whats with the Dems and Pedophiles?"
He has said that he apologizes for those tweets as they were written in frustration for the out of control spending in washington.
One of the posts on businessman Mike Perry account read " He is a power hungry black man"., and the other said "whats with the Dems and Pedophiles?"
He has said that he apologizes for those tweets as they were written in frustration for the out of control spending in washington.
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