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...
Wyclef Jean posted a personal statement on YouTube to address concerns about his Yele haiti Foundation. A Washington Post article raised concerns about the Yele Foundation's "fiscal scrutiny," first reported by The Smoking Gun . The Yele Haiti foundation's tax returns have apparently raised concerns. The Foundation was first registered 12 years ago and has remained active. They have however first filed taxes only in August of 2009. Wyclef in this videos says it's not about charity money but about his unprecedented commitment to Haiti as he is Haitian. And this is what he lives sleep and breathes with. He also said he started this NGO to make an impact as there have been a whole number of NGO's there for the past 75 years but there was not making a real impact. He is committed to the people of Haiti An original post by Sociolatte