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...
The verdict is out on Twitter with the general consences suggesting that Iron Man 2 is good. With people giving their feedback having just watched the movie. The sequal to Iron Man opened in theates across North America on the 7th. Adjectives used to discribe the movie on Twitter have been wow, good, must see and watch now. The movie has reportadle pulled in $7.5 million at midnight screenings and set to gross in as much as $140 million to $160 million over the opening weekend. Below are a few sample tweets from people who watched the movie sporer: Iron Man 2 was a very solid sequel. I enjoyed it a ton, espec. since it had my favorite actor (RDJ) and actress (Scarlett). Look fwd to 3. lovelyAlesana: iron man 2? boooooo so LAME!! i love scarlett johansson though rainysanctuary: iron man 2: not as perfect as the first but robert downey jr can do no wrong... lots of new trailers as well. NetaRose: iron man 2 was a good movie just wish Terrence Howard was war machine Anlymation: Iron Man ...