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 crazy is catching on. Once the cubs are born and these cute little black bears start running around in the den and ducking under their mother think fur, the cuteness is going to catch like wile fire. Den Cam is attracting a lot of people and we hope they have enough bandwidth to accommodate all the surge in incoming traffic. Launched by the North American Bear Center to help create awareness and help bears in the wild Check out this post from their blog. Click here to go to their home page and view the Cam. An original post by Sociolatte