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...
**You may notice something a little different with gem trees. You are now able to share the first three gems from neighbors you collect. When you first arrive at their island, this message will come up:
After collecting the gem, another message will come up, asking if you could share that gem with the neighbor. Sharing will place a post on their FB wall and allow them to collect a gem (of a random color) for their own.
After collecting the gem, another message will come up, asking if you could share that gem with the neighbor. Sharing will place a post on their FB wall and allow them to collect a gem (of a random color) for their own.
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