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...
John Burge a man who has been suffering from poly cystic kidney disease for the last 16 years was told two years ago that he needed a transplant. when a kidney was not found by mid-september. Burg's son turned to Facebook for a second time Less than 30 minutes after making his post on Sept 18th, a 24 yr old friend, Nick Eaton responded. After testing it was confirmed that it was a match and the surgery was confirmed and successfully completed on Thursday morning at Iowa hospitals and clinics in Iowa city. "It's incredible that he stepped forward" said John Burge. "It's pretty scary, but I'm pretty proud of him" said his mothing. Nick is expected to be out of hospital and spend Christmas with his family. Image courtesy of the Globe Gazette An original post by Sociolatte