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 is one funny video the people try the cone-ing trick at a McDonalds and the manager refuses the stunt. If you are not familiar with cone-ing it is the art of ordering an ice cream cone and then grabbing it by the ice cream. You must be thinking weird and stupid and you will not be the only one thinking that. This is one of the internet fads that tried to dethrone planking. Planking is known to have started in Australia and so did cone-ing. Check the video below titled Anti-coneing McDonald's manager. Cone-ing fail - epic funnies The originial cone-ing video An original post by Sociolatte