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...
A bullet was found outside a window in the White House. This bullet was fired from an assault rifle only blocks away from the White House. The suspect who has been arrested, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, police say could pose a threat to the president. two bullets were fires and the one found outside of the window was stopped by ballistic glass. This outside the president's quarters. The police are reporting that Oscar Ramiro; form Idaho, could be suffering from mental illness and could be a threat to the president. He says that he is on a mission from God and police say he is obsessed with the President and the White House. What led to the arrest was that someone saw and identified the suspect. The president of course is not at the White House as he is currently in Australia. This is right now one of the hottest trends on Google Search Trends . video platform video management video solutions video player An original post by Sociolatte