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...
This is a fun post which collects pics of Animals planking. Well it's obvious that they are not really planking in their world but in our world their actions seem to look like the latest internet meme know as planking. Plankign has been all the rage and has had many offshoots like Horsemaning and batmaning. All trying to be the new planking but no other internet meme in 2011 has succeeded as much as planking. It truly caught the imagination of people, from kids to celebrities everyone has heard of it and seen or knows someone who has tried it. Planking is fun when done safely, it is put to shame when done by irresponsible people. So keep yourself and others safe if you ever want to plank. In the mean time here's some animal planking funnies.
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