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...
Found below are full-earth photos and images that have been posted by NASA on their Flickr and Hurricane watch site. Even as hurricane Irene close in on the U.S Atlantic coast and emergency evacuations are being prepared in New York City. Social Media is being used to keep a watch and track its progress. There are Facebook pages that can be visited for additional information. Facebook also has a tip sheet on what to do when there is a natural disaster. NASA has been tracking the progress of the storm and the images below offer a fantastic view from the eye in the sky. if you are using Twitter the hashtag #irene is what you would need to keep track of any new tweets regarding the hurricane.
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