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...
PetVille has announced a new contest for Halloween. The design a pumpkin contest will have three winners chosen by the PetVille team.Top 3 images chosen by the PetVille team will be added to the game as Giftable/Coin Halloween Decorations. In addition each of the three winners will receive 100 pet cash and 1 of each pumpkin. This is a great chance for users to have their creations added to the game as giftable and coin Halloween decorations. The rules for the contest are simple and we are adding the rules below as a guide. The Rules: One design entry per person. You may submit up to 3 images of your single design . You must post your entry to this thread. Please[click here]to see this guide on how to post images You can submit your designs as a digital image that you created using paint or other design program, a scanned or digital photo of a carved pumpkin or even ASCII art. The submitted design must be owned and created by you. "Borrowing" other people's designs is...