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...
I am sure most of us remember William Shatner's rendition of Sarah Palin's Tweets. He read out Tweets from Palin's page that proved to be quiet a funny and amusing affair. Here is a vidoe of one of those readings frmo the tonight show. What happenned on the Tonight Show last night was William Shatner read from Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" and as soon as he finished. Sarah Palin steps on stage unannounced and read's frmo William's book "Up Till Now". Store of the original Captain Kurk. The gag did score laughs and both of them walked of holding hands. An original post by Sociolatte