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...
It so happens that on Jan 2nd a previously unrealeased Michale Jackson song hit the web via YouTube. It is not the full song but a snippet that lasts for about a minute and a half. There are many people who have uploaded the song on YouTube and it is now doing the rounds. It appears that the song is Lenny Kravits song 'Storm' redone with MJ. With now people debating which version is better and it seems the majority is with the version done with Michael Jackson. An original post by Sociolatte