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...
"Cala boca Galvão" means "Shut up Galvao". Galvão Bueno is the name of one of the most important sportscasters in Brazil but his cheeky catchphrases and excessive patriotism lead to stupid remarks during every Brazil match. No, it's not about saving a rare bird. It's the hot rage and trending on Twitter right now and there is even a promotion on YouTube that says that this topic on Twitter is to save the bird. The message on the video also says that each time you tweet this $0.10 is donated to the foundation. This topic has gotten so many spammy comments and links to places that don't even speak about Cala Boca Galvao. The video below is also a hoax and the whole thing about saving a bird is also not true. There are Tweets saying that Cala Boca Galvao will be singing with Lady Gaga and a whole lot of off topics. Seems people are having a great time confusing the whole thing. This is one topic on Twitter that has gone everywhere but the right place. It ...