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 video is currently doing the rounds on Reddit. It's an old video and posted way back in 2007 - you're saying this is so yesterday and yes it is. There is just problem however there was no Reddit and Redditors to comment on it way back then. Reddit is now and this video has found a place and a voice in 2012. Reddit is filled with people who talk religion and therefore this video now makes a lot of sense. Redditors and and their large community of atheists. Whatever be the context this video can be funny or ironic depending on how you look at it. Seguso swears God and thunder erupts in the heavens, he actually stops and looks at the skies. a must watch.
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