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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

Plane carrying Miami Heat makes emergency landing

Dwyane Wade from Miami Heat took to his Twitter account to talk about the emergency landing.  Hey everyone pray for our pilot. We just had a emergency landing in chicago. He went into a Coma. God bless this man and his family The heat were returning home after a game with the Minnesota Timberwolves when their plan had to be diverted to Chicago's O'Hare airport after a crew member fell ill. The crew member was rushed to a hospital after he fell into a diabetic coma.  The Herald's report said that the Heat landed in Chicago around 1:30 am., then took off about an hour later to resume their flight to Miami. An original post by Sociolatte