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...
This video was uploaded on Sep 11, and has already crossed over 300,000 views. Maybe you're saying that is not much but this video is going to get a lot more views in the coming days. A little about the video: This has Serena Williams arguing with the empire and she also has some very choice comments for her. What happens is that in a reply to Samantha Stosur - she screams right before Samantha could hit the ball and wham looses a point. She does not feel good about it and walks up to the empire to let her know her dissatisfaction. An original post by Sociolatte