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...
There is a new signpost up in FrontierVille " Gold Rush" coming soon. Uses need to be ready once it opens to go in and stake their claims. This might have a little flavor from Mafia Wars because there are going to be claim-jumpers. The Gold rush mountains are going to make you rich so keep you eyes open to be the first to reach the gold rush mountains once this new feature is released in FrontierVille. We will let you know as soon as this new feature is open. An original post by Sociolatte