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...
We had previously posted the video of the D.C Snowball fight . What happened was with a record showfall in the area people used Twitter and other social networks to advertise the fight. A whole lot of people showed up but the party got busted when a gun wielding cop came to break up a snowball fight. Well the Associated Press has just released the latest update on the incident . D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier on Monday called the officer's actions "totally inappropriate." Union chief Kristopher Baumann said Tuesday it's questionable whether Detective Michael Baylor will get a fair and unbiased investigation by the department. He said Lanier should wait for the investigation to close before passing judgment. The mass snowball fight was advertised on Twitter and other social media during a record snowfall. The detective has since had his gun removed and put on desk duty until investigations are completed. An original post by Sociolatte