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...
one according to one rider to create chaos and joy and to put a smile on a New Yorkers face. They also chose the coldest day of the year on purpose. This is their 9th year which had started by am impromptu group which started with seven would-be strippers. They had two teams in Queens, two teams in Brooklyn and another in Manhattan. They all took various subway lines and converged on Union Square to have a big pant less party to celebrate their success.
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