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...
The Cleb King of Twitter is about to be dethroned, Ashton Kutcher with 4,899,986 followers is fast losing his place on Twitter. Kutcher who beat CNN to the first person with a million followers is loosing his most converted place to the queen of candy pop Britney Spears who has already amassed 4,890,851 on Twitter. If her follower count continues to grow at this past she would have beaten Kutcher in about a fortnight. Looks like Britney's charisma is back in full swing. [Photos from their respective Twitter Account] An original post by Sociolatte