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 post comes as a update to the most important image and video searc h of the day. Sir Richard Branson's home on the Caribbean island which he owns; Necker, has been burnt of cinders. Kate Winslet was a guest on his home when the incident took place. She is safe and also ensure the safety of Branson's mother whom she carried out of the house to safety. The home caught fire after it was battered by Hurricane Irene. Kate and her two children were a part of the 20 guests who were at the property at the time of the incident and the actress acted like a true heroin while saving Eve, Branson's mom. Check out the photos and videos below. Island before the Blaze Video uploaded by Sir Richard Branson Read More: DailyMail.co.uk An original post by Sociolatte