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...
Lady Gaga has just wrapped up her tour of Johannesburg and from the tour comes a few Safari Pictures as Lady Gaga likes to call them. These photos were shared by her on Twitter and Facebook. Shows Lady Gaga out on Safari and meeting a pride of lions who are sleeping. The Safari vehicle goes a little closer and she gets her face in the frame with the lions in the background. We think she should have spent a little more time on Safari and shared a few more pics might have done quiet a bit for Wildlife Conversation. Given the amount of influence Lady Gaga has among her loyal and dedicated fans. Nature and Wildlife is something we support a lot and internationally recognized starts should also start doing their part for wildlife and nature. Take a look at the pics below and check it out for yourself. [gallery] Source: Lady Gaga Facebook Page