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...
Paul the German psychic Octopus who successfully predicted all the German Teams matches and was also used to predict the final, now is am App. Available at the iTunes store for $0.99, his powers area available to you now for less than a dollar. Paul's predictions did help people earn small fortunes, the ones betting on his predictions. Well now if your undecided about which move to go to, Pizza or Sushi, Mercia or Andrea why not just ask the octopus. This is a creation by uTouchLabs a Brazilian software development firm. To view the App at the iTunes store please click here . The real Paul off-course is now retired and gone back to doing what he does best entertaining children, he is now 2 and a half years old which is quiet old for an Octopus. An original post by Sociolatte