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...
After overshooting the runway a Caribbean Airlines plane crashed and split into two. There have been no deaths but a few injuries. It barely missed a 200-foot ravine which could have ended in a lot of fatalities. Authorities have closed the Airport and most of the passengers fled the plane leaving their luggage behind. . The plane BW 523 left New York stopped over at Trinidad before landing in Guyana. The plane was carrying 153 passengers on board. Poor visibility and rain might have been the cause for the pilot overshooting and landing the plane halfway down the runway. The news is breaking fast on Twitter and people are now using the topic 'Caribbean Airlines' to spread news of the plane that broke in half.
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