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...
Two teenage girls were arrested after they beat up their classmate and posted the video on YouTube. The video has since been removed at the request of the police. "The girls, ages 12 and 14, attacked their 13-year-old classmate at Benicia Middle School twice because they believed she had been making disparaging comments about them, police Lt. Mike Daley said." In both the incidents it is reported that they had lured the girl into the field telling her that there were some belongings they wanted to return. The victim suffered minor injuries to her head and neck. "the girl then called her mother and both of the suspects were arrested and "booked at Solano County Juvenile Hall." An original post by Sociolatte