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 man who has been threatening to jump from the observation deck roof at 30 Rockerfeller plaza has been rescued. A 23 yeal old man was sitting on the the ledge of a concrete pillar was threatening to jump off. Has however been persuaded not to by members of the NYPD's elite Rescue team. The video shows footage of the dramatic rescue. The man was sitting on the ledge of a concrete Pillar in the southeast corner of the 70th floor deck. An employee of NBC which is housed in the same same building has Tweeted a photo of the incident. Video: NYPD Rescue at 30 Rockefeller Plaza: MyFoxNY.com An original post by Sociolatte