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...
Eminem fans received 2 messages from him on Twitter . The First read " There is no Relapse 2" Relapse 2 was supposed to be the follow-up to his chart topping LP 'Relapse'. His fans were waiting with a lot of anticipation for the new album that everyone knew was in the making. On Wednesday he tweeted that there would be no Relapse 2 which caused panic among his fans. But in a second tweet Marshall Mathers cleared the air saying simply in a not so cryptic message. Recovery http://www.eminem.com The much waited for and anticipated for album has got a new name 'Recovery". "I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year," remarked Eminem. "But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse , and I think it deserves its own title." An or...