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...
NASA is holding a Twitter event and we have the extract directly from their page which explains everything that you would want to know about the event and how to be a part of the 100 lucky winners to attend the Tweetup at the Johnson Space Center in Houston For the first time, @NASA Twitter followers are invited to Houston, the home of Mission Control, to learn about a space shuttle mission in person. NASA is hosting this unique Tweetup on Feb. 17 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The event will provide NASA Twitter followers with the opportunity to take a tour of NASA's Johnson Space Center, view the Mission Control Center and astronaut training facilities. Tweeps also will be able to speak with flight directors, engineers, astronauts and trainers. The Tweetup will include a "meet and greet" session to allow participants to mingle with fellow Tweeps and the staff behind the tweets on @NASA. Space shuttle Endeavour is targeted to launch at 4:39 a.m. EST on...