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...
FarmVille announces new ways to find fuel for your vehicles. In addition to purchasing fuel or discovering it in mystery gifts or eggs you can now find fuel while plowing your farm or fertilizing your neighbors farm. While plowing your own farm you can now find fuel once per day. Fuel found on your farm can be shared with your neighbors by posting a feed to your wall. About 150 of your neighbors can get fuel by clicking on the link. When clicking on the link they will be taken to a page which will show them how much fuel they have earned. The Amount. The amount of fuel they receive will depend on how many plots they have on their farm. The more number of plots the larger the amount of fuel they receive. This amount is added directly to their overall take. While fertilizing your neighbors farm you stand a chance of finding fuel that you can use on your own farm. Once you find this fuel it will appear as a fuel cannister rising up from the ground. Fuel found while fertilizing is added di...