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...
Times like this, I wish Happy Aquarium brought back their weekly demo tank , because the game is now into the third week of its wedding bonanza and shows no signs of slowing down. Some of these new items are now permanent store additions, while others were Limited Edition goods. This post will tell you what all the new items are, how much they cost, and where you can find them at the store (if they're still around). On July 9th, in the store's "Specials" tab, under "Premium" there's now a: Wedding Cake ; 12 Pearls or 10 FB Credits Wedding Gazebo ; 12 Pearls or 10 FB Credits and Wedding Arch ; 10 Pearls or 8 FB Credits After briefly boot-legging Toy Story , July 13th and 14th was the appearance of the Wedding Gift Idol (get one free premium item everyday forever for $15) and Limited Edition Bride ($2.10 USD) and Groom Fish ($1.70 USD). On July 17th, the Love Birds were added to the "Tank Mates" section of the store for 29 Pearls or ...