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...
It all started when Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis campus police officer who pepper-sprayed passive student protesters. If you watch the video online you will see that the students were sitting peacefully protesting with their arms entangled and the cop Lt, John Pike casually walks around spraying humans with chemicals. The meme has spread faster that news about the incident would have done and this is something that will shame the officers life forever. America must be the only country in the world that pepper sprays people who are sitting down.
The meme however has ensure that this incident passes and spreads to all peoples from across the globe. it shows the cops in poor light and total disregard for human rights. Students across the US have photo-shopped the image you can now see the cops spraying everything and everyone. He has also sprayed Jesus Christ and the American constitution.
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