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...
Zynga makers of Mafia Wars and other popular Facebook games have been releasing surveys to help take the game to the next level. The new survey launched for Mafia Wars has to do with helping them choose the next city when you would like the game to be played in. The survey has three main categories. 1. Which new city would you choose, 2. Which city would be your second choice. 3. Which current Mafia Wars city is your favorite. Mafia Wars would like your input and we have a list of the survey questions below. 1. If you could choose the next city in Mafia Wars, which would you select? Please select your top choice. Athens, Greece Dublin, Ireland Istanbul, Turkey Johannesburg, South Africa London, England Los Angeles, USA Mumbai, India Prague, Czech Republic Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rome, Italy Sydney, Australia 2. What would be your second choice? What would be your second choice? Athens, Greece Dublin, Ireland Istanbul, Turkey Johannesburg, South Africa London, England Los Angeles, US...