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...
This is a continued effort to bring out daily videos that are going viral across the internet. Well we found this one today of Paris Hilton in the UK shopping. The video is of her shopping and flaunting herself, the thing about this YouTube video is the comments it has attracted. If you double click on this video it will take you to the original YouTube homepage and you can read the comments. The comments seem to be coming with a lot of passion for and against her. Why does Paris Hilton and her antics draw so much attention? what do you think? An original post by Sociolatte