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 race hate group on Facebook now has members from Australia's elite schools. The group calls itself " Mate speak English, you're in Australia Now " and has a logo of the Aussie flag with the caption 'F** off we're full". With a Group Description saying " if you want to speak your crappy language, go back to where you came from" The group at present does not have any Admins as all the admins left. The last one said it was started as a joke when his friends heard immigrants speaking different languages on the train. Once he caught on that the postings were becoming raciest he exited the group. Saying that he had friends from different ethnic backgrounds. The group is against immigrants. One student posting on the page, who says he is from Melbourne's Xavier College, has challenged the college's principal to expel him for joining the group. Dr Chris Hayes, Principal of Xavier College , said anyone who had joined the group had broken the s...