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...
Friends and family of Susan Powell, a missing wet valley woman will launch a social media blitz on Monday. The campaign will use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to help spread information about Powell and her picture. Twitter users are requested to send a Tweet about Susan and help push her name into the top trending topics so everyone knows and is aware of her case. Facebook users will have a purple ribbon campaign, users are asked to change their profile pictures to a purple ribbon. A slide show of her pictures will be available on their Facebook Group and on YouTube. James on the page says: FIND SUSAN POWELL - PLEASE, everyone, we need YOU! Please send ane-mail to findsusanpowell@gmail.com so you can receive instructions forthe "social media blitz" THANK YOU ALL!! The campaign will run for 72 hours. If you would like to be a part of it send an e-mail to the address listed above. An original post by Sociolatte