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...
Cristiano Ronaldo who joined Twitter on June 15th 2010 has been busy updating his Twitter Page. He already has 294,096 followers. Captain of the Portuguese Football team his team was eliminated from the world cup after they lost against Spain 1-0 in the round of 16. The following messages was posted via a link on Twitter It is with great joy and emotion that I inform I have recently become father to a baby boy. As agreed with the baby's mother, who prefers to have her identity kept confidential, my son will be under my exclusive guardianship. No further information will be provided on this subject and I request everyone to fully respect my right to privacy (and that of the child) at least on issues as personal as these are. Millions of Hearts are now going to be broken after this latest announcement via Twitter. Follow Cristiano on Twitter . You can also visit his website . [Image Courtesy Cristiano Ronaldo via Twitpic] An original post by Sociolatte