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...
Anthony Joshua delivered a decisive sixth-round knockout against Jake Paul on December 19, 2025, ending one of the most talked-about crossover boxing events of the year and igniting massive online reaction across sports and social media. The heavyweight bout, streamed globally on Netflix from Miami, pitted a former unified heavyweight champion against a YouTuber-turned-professional boxer in a fight that drew attention well beyond traditional boxing audiences. How the Fight Played Out From the opening rounds, Joshua’s size, power, and experience were evident. While Paul showed early confidence and movement, the gap in heavyweight pedigree became increasingly clear as the fight progressed. Joshua scored multiple knockdowns before landing a clean finishing sequence in the sixth round. The referee stopped the fight at 1:31 of the round, awarding Joshua a knockout victory. The loss marked the first knockout defeat of Jake Paul’s professional boxing career. Injury and Immediate After...