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...
For those of us not from Korea this is what wikipedia has to say about Choi Siwon. Choi Si-won (born February 10, 1987), also credited as Siwon , is a Korean pop singer and actor . He is a member of super boy band Super Junior and is part of its subgroup, Super Junior-M . Siwon is best known for his role in the 2006 Hong Kong historical action film A Battle of Wits as the young prince, Liang Shi. He is also one of the first four Korean artists to be on Chinese postage stamps. Yesterday was the birthday of fellow band member Han Geng and the topic was trending as #beijingfriedrice which was his popular nick name. Today fellow band member Choi Siwon celebrates his birthday and Twitter goes Trending with Birthday wishes from his fans. He is a member of the band Super Junior-M. Choi Siwon is Trending on Twitter at number 3. An original post by Sociolatte