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 excitement of Las Vegas continues this weekend again with the Vegas jackpot Weekend. For three days you get to earn double mastery and double fight loot. There will also be a special loot called Vegas loot. Las Vegas has not yet been launched in Mafia Wars and the only reason we can think of is that they want players to wrap up all their other pending cities and be ready for the big launch. So get ready for three days to three days of double mastery and double fight loot starting on July 16th.
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