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 internet is partial to cat videos and YouTube has it's share of the world's funniest cat vidoes, LOLcats. Well sometimes a dog comes along to steel the show. We found these Techno Dog Raves His Face Off videos that have truely gone viral on YouTube. This dancing machine does not even care that the other dogs won't join in, he simply continues to do his thing. Other users have joined in and using the same video have added different songs to the dog dance sequence, to create their funny dog videos. Some are good and some are fail. What do you think? An original post by Sociolatte