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...
Vin Diesel is on the Trending Topics on Twitter again today and for a couple of reasons. People are wishing him a happy birthday but he was born on the 16th so that is a bit off. There are also people tweeting about Vin Diesel with hair and yes we have the photo right here for you. Then there are a few Chuck Norris type jokes being thrown in. But the main reason could be because there has been a release data announced for fast and Furious 6, but that too is old news. Then there are some female users who are tweeting physical attributes of the star with things like 'would like me some Vin Diesel'. Well one of main reasons he is a TT on Twitter is there are photos of him with hair floating around the internet and the news that he will be acting in a movie with hair and news of the Riddik sequel. Vin Diesel has been planning to return for a third "Chronicles of Riddick" installment, called "Riddick." It is now set to begin filming in September and as a birthd...