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...
Here is one cute video to start your day with or brighten up your day. A baby goat gets stuck in water at the zoo. You can hear someone say 'goat in the water', you'd expect the zoo keeper to show up and rescue the goat. That did not happen in jumped the pig and took the goat to safety. As far as cute animal videos go - this is definitely one video worth viewing. Many comments below this YouTube videos say that Pigs are smarter that Cats and Dogs. In fact they are supposed to rank 4th in animal intelligence, right behind chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants
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