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...
And you might be wondering why?, and the answer is that Eddie Murphy will be hosting the Oscars and it's now official. The Eddie Murphy camp has been wanting to get the word out to receive his career since he has been experiencing a slump for a long time. The Oscars is not till next yeah but hey the excitement for Eddie Murphy fans on Twitter is a whole other thing. The closest competition came from Billy Crystal who also expressed interest in hosting the Oscars again. Eddie Murphy himself was nominated for a Oscar in 2006 for the movie Dreamgirls. By selecting a comedian the academy is returning to its comic roots. Eddie Murphy will host the 84th Academy Awards which will telecast on Feb 26th. "I am enormously honored to join the great list of past Academy Awards hosts, from Hope and Carson to Crystal, Martin, and Goldberg, among others," Eddie Murphy. An original post by Sociolatte