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...
A bill put forth before congress wants to classify Pizza as a vegetable because of the tomato paste or sauce that is topped on a pizza. Which means if the bill is passed a child's lunch can be substituted with a slice of pizza. Law makers in congress are recommending that Pizza and French fries be considered as whole foods. For this large food companies -- in this case ConAgra and Schwan -- can be thanked -- they pressured Congress to comply with their financial interests.
This is turning into a meme as people make fun of the concept. You can add your own pics in the comments section below. ' So I put some vegetables on your vegetable'.
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