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 latest music video by Psy is a masterpiece called 'Gentleman'. The Gangnam style star whose video became the most watched video on YouTube has done it again. Gentleman was uploaded on April 13th, 2013. The month is not yet over and the video is fast coming up to 250 million views. This is in less than a month. Following the success of Gentleman - parodies and flashmobs covering the song are being uploaded to YouTube. Here are a a few of the best and will definitely not be the last. proving once again that Psy is successful on the interwebs and the internet people love him and his music. The parodies and flashmobs will keep rolling out with people rocking to KPop music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yTeK340hTs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypZbfZLq0s0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsUS6xQYAf4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OnPAjOFZw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S8oZB-eSGQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuYtcz2wk8