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...
President Obama is currently traveling through the Midwest on a bus tour of Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. The special black-liner debuted yesterday and is built from scratch. It has state -of-the-art features and creature comforts. The president's new ride let's him travel with his office including the ability to control the Us nuclear weapons remotely. it has flat-screen TV, couches a bathroom but no sleeping area. There have been two coaches ordered by the feds and costed $2.2 million from Hemphill Brothers Coach, based in Tennessee.
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