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...
You might find the below video disturbing. The contents of the video show two women in a McDonald's arguing with an employee over a $50 bill, they abuse hiw and slap him before jumping over the counter. Once over the counter the employee takes a metal pole and starts thrashing and beating the women. Turns out the employee who's name is Rayon McIntosh has just been released from jail after serving a 10 years sentence after shooting dead a high-school classmate in 2000. The women, Denise Darbeau, 24, and Rachel Edwards, 24 have been charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. Rayon McIntosh is being held on $40,000 bail.
The video also known as Fight in McDonald's and McDonald's beating has crossed over 551,265 views in just four days. The video has also made national headlines. The power of private video sharing seen in this video has brought an incident that might have gone unnoticed into the public eye.
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