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...
More than half a million people have now subscribed to the YouTube education channel. Schools out for summer and if you don't want your brains to rust but would like to polish the grey matter. Head on over to the YouTube education channel to help you keep on learning. This week YouTube is focusing on Physics, the study of matter and it's motion through space and time. This Summer School program provided by YouTube will focus on new subjects every week. This online education program is designed to keep students up to date with technology and lessons. YouTube Summer School, Session 1: Matter & Motion . This session last for almost 40 minutes and covers the large and small in Physics. Join this channel to continue your Summer School and after school starts there will still be a lot of stuff to help you in your online education. An original post by Sociolatte