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 seems to have started on 23 Aug, 2011 a month before the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests started on 17 Sep, 2011. many of the people carrying slogans at the protests has this as their catch phrase. Many even asking people to link back to the Tumblr site that started it off. If you visit the 'We are the 99 percent' tumblr page, you will see that this 'Brought to you be the people who started the Occupy Wall Street protests'. That is a little background to this whole movement that seems to be gaining momentum on the internet.
The idea behind We are the 99% is very simple. You take a photo of yourself and with a handwritten message of how the financial situation is affecting you and post it to the tumblr site. The meaning itself seeks to draw attention to the fact that 99% of Americans are burdened with taxes while the 1% top rich get away with paying hardly anything.
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