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...
The all new Horse Stable expansions is now out in FarmVille. More horses will increase your chances of finding Arborists, Farm Hands, and foals. Visit your stable to find out how, and don’t forget to send your friends stable parts! The way this works is you would need to visit your stable in FarmVille and click on 'Expand' after which you would need to post a Facebook News Feed letting your neighbors know that you are expanding and you would need all their help for building supplies. An original post by Sociolatte