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...
With all the speculation of the PetVille pet cash offer for where all users had to do was click on a link and enter the drawing. Since the winner was supposed to be announced on April fool's day and the contest was launched just a few days before April fool's day. There was a lot of speculation that this might just be an April fool's joke played by PetVille. People writing about it really wondered if they would give away 10,000 in Pet Cash. The PetVille pet cash giveaway was considered by many people as just a big joke but apparently it did not turn out to be so. There is a winner and the winner and his Pet are the recipients of 10,000 in Pet Cash. For those of you who are not familiar with PetVille. Pet Cash is what is used to buy either PetVille Coins or PetVille Cash. Some items are sold on PetVille for real cash making this one of the richest social games on the web right now. The happy winner of that Pet Cash is Pawal S and his pet Puszek. An original post by Sociolat...