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...
An Antelope crashes into a biker in Africa. The incident has been caught on camera by a friend who was riding behind him. He gets knocked really hard and when he gets up he can't even remember what happened. The biker can be heard meaning and groaning in pain and says that the helmet which has been split in half saved his like. CNN speaks to the biker and well check the video out to see things for yourself. Of course there is one consolation - It could have been a rhino. An original post by Sociolatte