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...
If you haven't head of Buster Keaton you're missing out on something amazing. he was funny, creative and brave. If you think Charlie Chaplin was the only funny guy around those days, think again. Here in the stunt above, he is using a 6 tone prop. His crew threatened to quit and the cameraman looked away as the film started rolling. This whole front pron falls around him, even as it brushes his arm. Buster doesn't even flinch. check out the Buster Keaton video below -- sure to make you smile, he is just hilarious. [ Gif Source ] [ Image Source ]