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 comes as breaking news and is also deemed to have been done by vandals. A copper sword resting atop Abraham Lincoln's final resting place has been stolen. The last time that same sword was stolen was in 1890, over 100 years ago. There are been no security guard at the place during the night for a lack of funds. it must have been stolen during the night as during the day one of the workers would have noticed. The sword has been broken off at the handle.
The statue is located on the tomb's balcony and which is actually closed to visitors. The rest of the statue has been left unharmed and authorities say they plan to fix the statue.
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