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...
Social Media is abuzz with the photos and videos of the Giant Sinkhole created by Tropical storm Agatha in Guatemala city. The Sinkhole is already trending on Twitter's worldwide trending topics.
Sinkholes are created by flooding and landslides and Guatemala has been flooded with huge landslides leaving residents searching for their homes cowered in slush. During the storm rivers burst their banks and hillsides disappeared.
It has also been reported that a sinkhole appeared in the same area in 2007.
A three story building collapsed and fell into the enormous sinkhole.
Sinkholes are created by flooding and landslides and Guatemala has been flooded with huge landslides leaving residents searching for their homes cowered in slush. During the storm rivers burst their banks and hillsides disappeared.
It has also been reported that a sinkhole appeared in the same area in 2007.
A three story building collapsed and fell into the enormous sinkhole.
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