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...
A court has declared that Polish citizen Leszek Bielenda can keep his 10-month-old cub, Simba, as a pet in his house in Glogow, Poland. Bielenda and Simba rejoiced.
The video has attracted a lot of attention on YouTube and one user had this to say "he seems like a good man too bad he's gonna be lunch". Another said "next time that man is the news is when his body is crapped out from the lion". You watch the video and oh yeah add your comments.
The video has attracted a lot of attention on YouTube and one user had this to say "he seems like a good man too bad he's gonna be lunch". Another said "next time that man is the news is when his body is crapped out from the lion". You watch the video and oh yeah add your comments.
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