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...
Seems 2013 is heating up with all the new Memes around - the latest meme offering on the internet is HADOKEN-ing. Hadouken has been around in Japan for sometime but has now crossed over and gripping the rest of the world.This meme has to do with fun pics of young girls in Japan doing power moves like in Dragon Ballz Z or actually more like the power moves that originated in 'The Matrix'. Where one person stands in the middle and presses the ground while all the others fly away. So if you're not familiar with the meme here are a few pics to help you get started. It originated in Japan and seems set to take over the world. Good luck while creating your own image. (All above images from Imgur) Hadoken-ing at @ comedycentral Headquarters! twitter.com/ComedyCentral/… — Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) March 28, 2013 Hadoken-ing at #30Rock with @ stephlauren goo.gl/K69pn twitter.com/AnthonyQuintan… — Anthony Quintano (@AnthonyQuintano) March 28, 2013