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...
America's Got Talent is looking for their next star on YouTube. The show is popular for allowing ordinary people to show case their talent on TV and win prize money. America's Get Talent is looking for all types of talents. Comedians, juglers, animal acts anything goes and age is no bar. If you've got talent this is your platform. On August 10 there will be a special America's Got Talent/YouTube show on NBC. 11 acts will be selectd by the judges and one act will be selected by user votes. The winner stands to win $1,000,000 If you would like to take a shot at it you have got till June 23 to take out your camera, show off your skills and upload your video to YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/agt . Your Video: Videos should be no longer than 2 minutes. They must include a recent 90-second performance. Tell Us About You: You can add a short (no more than 30 seconds) introduction stating facts about your act like the name, age(s), where you live, and anything else you what to...