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 Boston Globe reported that the John F. Kennedy museum has launched a twitter feed for all history buffs and Kennedy Fans.
To follow the twitter Feed @JFK__1960 ( You need to use the double underscore)
The Bio: on the feed said.
To follow the twitter Feed @JFK__1960 ( You need to use the double underscore)
The Bio: on the feed said.
Name JFK__1960
Web http://www.jfklib...
Bio On the campaign trail with John F. Kennedy -- 50 years later. Experience the day-to-day workings of JFK's road to the White House. A project of the JFK Library.
The feed also has a video which we have added here
Relive history! Beginning 1/2/10, follow JFK on the campaign trail - 50 years later - via schedules culled from the JFK Library's archive.
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