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...
Of all the kinds on things Tweeps come up with this seems to be by far really creative. So does it stand for TheLoveStories or TrueLoveStories.
Another interesting topic leading up to Valentine's Day
Here are a few interesting Tweets we picked up.
RT @TheLoveStories: A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water -Nancy Reagan #TLS
RT @#TLS So many men, but So little time. -Mae West
Here are a few of our own.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes
Another interesting topic leading up to Valentine's Day
Here are a few interesting Tweets we picked up.
RT @TheLoveStories: A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water -Nancy Reagan #TLS
RT @#TLS So many men, but So little time. -Mae West
Here are a few of our own.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes
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