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...
Their logo is a lizard wearing a cap and smoking a pipe. Please click on image to expand. The crime perpetrated by the Lizard Squad is that they targeted PlayStation network knocking it offline on Christmas Day. Users were unable to access Microsoft's Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network services on Dec 24 evening and continued into Christmas. Vincent Omari, the 22 year old man from London that serves as a spokesman for the Lizard Squad hacker group, has been jailed on suspicion of his involvement in several thefts from PayPal. It was previously reported that he was let out on bail and no charges have been filed. This arrest has been seen as a way for the investigators to gain valuable information in relation to the rest of the group. [ Vincent Omari seen in the pic below]