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...
Here comes a video from Russia that has been doing the rounds on the Internet. It's also started trending on Facebook - the video is a compilation of random acts of kindness. Strangers helping other strangers to get through their day, in a very touching way. You need to watch the video to see how deeply emotional it is. many users on YouTube have commented below the video that they almost had a cry. The video is nice and will help freshen your perception of reality. A good shot in the arm to get on your feet and do something nice for someone today. Let us know in the comments section below with a reaction. Random acts of kindness video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEiA80ZL08