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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

Play the piano on YouTube

Yeah that's right a cleaver interactive video on YouTube let's you play the Piano. We have embedded the video below and this is how it works. You need to wait for the full video to download. Once it is downloaded use the pointer of your mouse to mouse over the key you want to strike and click the left button. Once you get the hang of it. You can play small pieces of music. Remember you need to use your mouse inside the video and click on the key. An original post by Sociolatte