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...
This is one video that has really gone viral, with almost 5 million hits. The video features soldiers in Afghanistan doing a re-make of the Lady Gaga song Telephone. The response from viewers have been nothing but positive and the video itself is very interesting as you see the guys dressing up and dancing to a Lady Gaga song. Most people who commented on their channel also make it a point to wish the troops a safe return home. An original post by Sociolatte