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...
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Every now and then something really silly happens that leaves you in splits of laughter or at best with a wide grin. This is one such story and happened in Calima, north of the city of Cali, Colombia. What transpired was that two men walked into an internet cafe hired two computers and sat down to do their thing. Once of which must have been to login to Facebook and check their accounts. Once down they got up to pay for their system use and pulled out guns and robbed the internet cafe. The cafe administrator then called the police who found that one of the men had not logged out of his Facebook account. This took his home address from his account and drove to the criminal's home picked him up and logged him in Jail.
This is exactly what happened - talk about covering your trail. The thief left a hot and blazing trail, right to his home. In fact once they had robbed the internet cafe they made a clear getaway on their motorcycle - the irony of it. You plan an escape and leave your secrets open - just saying.
Source: MSNBC via Gizmodo

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