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 London challenge mission has kicked off in Mafia Wars. The more mafia the better, make sure you have a large mafia as it works better to ensure you get passports. You need to earn your passports through fights, robbing and doing jobs. Invite as many people to join you on Mafia Wars and make sure your Mafia is strong. The passports will help you on your way as you work to steel the Crown Jewels. By adding more people to your Mafia you add additional ways to get passports. British Passports are needed to complete each of the three London chapters. The London challenge mission consists of three chapters and one will unlock each week. Complete each chapter to score one of three limited edition items. An original post by Sociolatte