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...
A party announcment on Facebook about an innocnet sweet 16 party in Ferndale could have lured uninvited guests. Police responded to a 911 call arrived to see people running from the party site. Ferndale officers said they responded to 911 calls shortly after midnight and found about 200 people running from VFW hall, yelling that somebody was inside firing shots. Police said the party was thrown by two mothers for their 16 year old daughters. But not all who turned up had been invited. Police believe this resulted of members of two gangs squaring off. Happened at VFW hall at 177. Police have not yet made an arrest, nor have they identified the victims except to say that both were boys, 16, one from Detroit and the other from Royal Oak Township. Investigators think the uninvited people may have learned of the party because of an innocent announcement in the popular social networking website. An original post by Sociolatte