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...
With one and a half day to go before the Indian Premier League cricket matches in India start. YouTube has announced that they will be broadcasting the matches live. The IPL channel on YouTube can be found at www.youtube.com/ipl. The official site for the iplt20 has all the excitement. This is great news for fans of the ipl and T20 matches. The Indian Premier League features the faster version of the game that generates high excitement. Matches that used to last for a full 50 overs now last for only 20 and each Indian Team has a number of foreign players that have been bought at an auction. For foreign players it is a huge source of income and popularity as all cricketing nations tune in for the games that a fast paced, quick and full of energy. An original post by Sociolatte