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...
An Islamic cleric had this to say about Earthquakes happening in Haiti , Chile and the US . Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi earlier this month warned worshipers: "Women who do not dress modestly . . . lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes." And so one blogger, Jen McCreight, decided to test his claim. She is urging women on Monday to gather in their "most immodest outfit" and see what happens. So for all the D.C. women who are interested in participating in this event , there is a gathering being organized for noon at Dupont Circle. According to one Facebook page, more than 30,000 are liking this. Jen's Twitter page Jen's Facebook page This theory will be tested and if there are no seismic events on the 26th the cleric would need to prove why he is right or wrong. Jen McCreight says this on her Facebook page Help fight supernatural thinking and the oppression of women, just by showing you...