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...
Treasure Isle has released 7 new maps called "Rising Sun Run". Here is the teaser from Treasure Isle "Pack up some fruits and save up some fire shovels because Asian Isles is now open to for digging. Check out the Rising Sun Run maps, complete the newest collections and explore the world of Treasure Isle". Only problem is that three of these seven new maps can be opened only with treasure cash. These new maps with an Asian theme are a nice and welcome change in the game. The seven new maps available are: Rising Sun Run Isles (i) Snowy Glade (ii) Fuji Isle (iii) Tanuki Forest needs level 41 (iv) Sacred Shrine needs level 150 (v) The Master Artist (opens for 10 Island Cash) (vi) Sushi Shack (opens for 16 Island Cash) (vii) Peaceful Monastary (opens for 20 Island Cash) 10 new treasure collections have also been added: Rising Sun Run Treasure Collections (i) Samurai Gear (ii) Silk (iii) Necklaces of Power (iv) Origami (v) Fetching Flowers (vi) Necklace Parts (vii) G...