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 aspiring realitTV stars who appeared to have gate crashed the white house's state dinner. Appeared to have been people with experince who have done this before. Socialites Tareq and Michaele Salahi , who are apparently auditioning to have roles in the Bravo cable channel’s forthcoming “The Real Housewives of Washington,’’ penetrated layers of security Tuesday night to mingle with the likes of Vice President Joe Biden. She has been reported to have spent as much as 8 to 10 hours getting groomed before the event. The staffer doing Salahi’s hair asked to see the White House invitation, he said. “She starts rummaging through her purse, and then said, ‘It must be out in the car.’ She is also set to appear on "Larry King Live". The aspiring reality star seems to have a knack of getting into the spot light and making a fine appearance. Think of the pressure that one goes through to become a reality TV star. There are so many out there. How is open supposed to stand out? They...