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...
Co-op farming is coming soon to FarmVille and here are the official details. 1. New Jobs that you can complete with your friends 2. FarmVille will feature new jobs that you can complete with your friends 3. Folks in FV can ask for help completing various will ask for help in completing various farming jobs. You'll be able to team up with your friends and neighbors to tackle these jobs for various rewards 4. Each one of these jobs will have a timer. 5. If you and your friends finish the job before the timer expires you will receive either a gold silver or bronze medal depending on how quick and efficient you are your friends were. 6. The faster you finish the better the medal 7. If you and your neighbors are savvy enough to win a gold medal you will unlock a very special prize. An original post by Sociolatte