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...
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| Jack The Cat |
This is a story that is fast becoming so popular that updates on the hunt for a cat have made it to the wall on AA's Facebook page. To give some background this is what happened. It all started when American Airlines lost Karen Pascoe's cat, named Jack. Jack escaped from his kennel at the JFK airport last week. he escaped shortly after being checked-in. Pascoe's sister then created a Facebook page for the lost cat, the rage then spread to Twitter where the hashtag #FindjackTheCat is picking up steam. AA on their Facebook page has been fast to respond and have personally invited Pascoe over to NY from San Francisco to search for the cat. The latest from AA is that she has accepted and will be joining the search. Read More

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