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...
A wrestler from the WWE is now the #1 Trending topic on Twitter. Fans of Randy Orton and the WWE in general are thrilled. As to the reason behind this trend. Some of the Titles given to him are WWE's Viper. The Legend Killer. RKO. Wikipedia has this to say about Randy Orton Randal Keith "Randy" Orton (born on April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestling on its Raw brand. Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler; his grandfather Bob Orton, Sr., father "Cowboy" Bob Orton, as well as his uncle Barry O, all competed in the professional wrestling industry. WWE Raw 07.19.2010 feat. Randy Orton vs Edge vs Chris Jericho. This was a "Money In the Bank" Ladder Match which Randy Orton Lost. Even so he is now a trending topic in the UK. There was also a special ladder that was built for the Big Show. Lot's of ladders were tossed around and used as weapons of destruction. An orig...