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...
The Spirit of St. Patrick's day has now come to PetVille. After the pot of gold release on FarmVille, PetVille now has a Spot of Luck, oh yes, Irish luck. Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in PetVille with a brand new collection of decorations and clothing! The new "Spot of Luck" collection has everything from shamrocks & gold to rainbows & leprechauns! Spot of Luck collection that includes a golden horseshoe, a different pot of gold, banners, balloons, clover wallpaper and more. Check all of the new goodies out in the PetVille Furniture store . All Pet owners can now indulge in a little bit of Irish luck and bring home the luck O' the Irish. An original post by Sociolatte