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 Iraqi government has launched it's own YouTube channel to counter "Lies" from the media and to show their own successes. To view the announcement from Mr. Nouri Al-Malik prime Minister of Iraq click here . To view the official channel of the Iraqi Government please click here . It is really unclear what effect this is going to have on the people of Iraq with the country not having brad band more suitable to video streaming. But people outside of Iraq can view compare and analyze. In another video Eric Schmidt spoke about how good this is and people will have a lot to see and discover with this new channel. Run by the current government there is a lot to expect. They are going to post videos that show the country in a different spot light. An original post by Sociolatte