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...
An Airplane has crashed in Mangalore, India with 169 people on-board. 160 are feared dead and is possibly India's worst air crash. The plane a Boeing 737-800 was flying into Mangalore from Dubai and skidded off the runway after landing. It passed the radar tower and landed in a forested area. It has also been reported that the plane broke into two. Very few survivors are expected after the worst ever crash in India. People in Indian and around the world spread the news quickly via Facebook and Twitter and one of the most tweeted messages are the Helpline numbers people can call. The Helpline Numbers: 011-25656196, 25603101 Mangalore helpline: 0824-2220422, 2010167. The hash tags being used on Twitter for the plane crash are #Mangalore #Plane Crash YouTube is also full of videos of the news of the tragic crash . An original post by Sociolatte