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...
Here is a fun video inspired by the Arnold Schwarzenegger Soundboard 4, which is a collection of sentences from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stuff he says in the movie. You can use this soundboard and have fun with it. You can use his voice and create stuff. The video below shows Arni in his role as the voice-based personal assistant on the iPhone 4S. Cool and funny video especially how it tries to do a Siri with Arni. Siri is fast becoming an internet meme and her fame is spreading far and wide.
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