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...
Two new challenges are now available! To earn the Good Neighboring challenge you will need to *claim* your Happy Neighborhood bonus 2 times this week while having at least 10 happy (green) pets in your neighborhood. To claim your bonus or see how many happy neighbors you have, click on the green bunny icon at the bottom of the game. Your own pet and Nosie will count towards this challenge so make sure to get them all clean before claiming your bonus! You must claim the bonus to get credit towards this challenge. this is the second challenge for the week. Pet Star was the first which will end on March 8th and now the Good Neighboring Challenge. An original post by Sociolatte