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...
A girl aged 13 meets man aged 19 on Facebook and decide to meet the same day. He arrives at her home and stays on for two days hiding in her closet. Her mother had was surprised to find the person in her daughters closet. "The girl allegedly told authorities she had sex with the man in her bedroom and then hid him in her closet, where her mother discovered him hiding early Monday, police said." The age of consent in Michigan is 16. The man has been arrested and is awaiting possible criminal sexual conduct charges. An original post by Sociolatte