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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...
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Lake in Sempu Island, Indonesia

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Indonesia court dismisses Facebook deformation case.

An Indonesian court on Tuesday freed a woman charged with deformation for sending an e-mail to friends telling them that the hospital that diagnosed her had got it wrong.  Prita Mulysari  had written to about 20 of her friends about being misdiagnosed with dengue fever at the hospital, when in fact she had mumps.  This post was later reposted without her knowledge on sites like Facebook.  The Omni International hospital then filed a case against her stating that this e-mail would tarnish the reputation of the hospital's doctors.  The hospital earlier this month offered to drop its civil charge against Ms Mulysari if she apologised. But she opted instead to challenge the fine of 204 million rupiah ($21,400, £13,320) - much more than a year's salary for most Indonesians - in the Supreme Court. That court decision has not yet been reached, but donations worth $50,000 so far have been collected to help her if necessary. If she does not need to pay the fine she will donate the mone...
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