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...
Image Credit: Terminal Studio This is part of a Halloween series called Halloween Tips. These posts are meant more for fun and info to better enjoy Halloween. One of the frequent questions that come up during Halloween is how to book a room and stay in a haunted Hotel, Inn or house. There are many resources on the web and when you search online you get a lot of sites with Haunted Hotel room listings and bookings. many of these are found in the UK and it is always a wonder to note why many ghosts choose to stay in England. Maybe has a lot to do with the climate. We have all heard about haunted castles and no castle is worth its salt if it does have have a ghost or two in residence. Well that statement might not be entirely true but it sounds kinda nice. Ghastly places to stay in is where you might like to find yourself this Halloween. So to find a haunted place to stay in is simple, search online and you can use the search terms 'haunted places to stay in' and you can also menti...