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...
Actress Brittney Murphy has died at age 32 from cardiac arrest. She had starred in such movies as Girl, Interrupted, uptown girls, clueless and Eminem's 8th Mile. Following which the stars have turned to Twitter to express their grief . Lindsay Lohan: "My deepest condolences go out to all of Brittany Murphy's loved ones & may she rest in peace. She was a great talent w/a beautiful soul. XO." Alicia Silverstone: "I'm so saddened to hear this news. I loved working with Brittany. She was so talented, so warm and so sweet. I always felt connected to her as we shared a very special experience in our lives together. I feel love in my heart for her-and hope she is at peace." Whoopi Goldberg: "It is a terrible loss for us as actors and to the industry but even greater for her family, My thoughts and prayers are with them." Denise Richards: "Brittany Murphy was in Drop Dead Gorgeous with me and was the sweetest and most adorable. Tragi...