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...
The world's fastest man Usain Bolt was just beaten in a 100 meters track and field event at IAAF Diamond League DN Galan meet Friday in Stockholm by American Tyson Gay. Tyson finished the race in 9.84 seconds ahead of Usain Bolt. Usain's fastest timing however is 9.58 and that says a lot about his actual speed. “Just one of those days,” Bolt said. “I told you I’m not unbeatable. I did not train as hard as in past years, so I can’t complain. And it was Tyson Gay. My congratulations to him. I’m not in my best shape and he is in great shape.... I simply wasn’t ready enough for that clash.” Usain Bolt however is now trending on the world wide topics at number 1. People on Twitter are talking about it, seems a shock that someone as fast as him can loose so easily. However it goes to show athletes at no 1. cannot afford to take chances and become lax. Usian said himself he has not been training hard enough. Check the video out for yourself An original post by Sociolatte