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...
Released as part of the official guides from Empires & Allies. In Empires & Allies, combat is not restricted to the campaign map. Not only can you take the fight to the Dark Alliance, but you can invade your friends’ island empires. This exciting and dynamic player versus player combat not only awards combat drops and XP, but you gain resources plundered from the occupied nation. Remember, you can invade your friends, and your friends can invade you. All players can participate in Player versus Player (PVP) combat starting at level 6. When you reach level 6, you can invade your neighbors. To invade a neighbor, click their picture in the ladder. When the menu for that neighbor appears, click Invade. This takes you to your neighbor’s Empire. When you are in your neighbor’s Empire, you see a green 5x5 square and a red crosshair on the screen. This shows what part of the Empire you will occupy if you win the invasion. Any buildings in the occupied area provide resources for the i...