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...
Image Credit: inquisitr After the Golden Globes 2012 the world was left with words from Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish. Both of them criticized Madonna. This spat has been going on for some time now. In fact from 2004. Elton John had said, 'Madonna winning the award - no f---ing chance. when she did win the award for best original song. Elton John did not look too pleased. In fact David Furnish took to his Facebook page to post this as his status update. "Madonna. Best song???? F**k off!!!" it did not stop there as he continued - "Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in it's [sic] narcissism. And her criticism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is." Check the video out below for more. An original post by Sociolatte