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 San Diego professor has developed a cell phone tool that would help guide illegal immigrants across the border. Ricardo Dominguez said the primary reason for developing the tool was " To offer a way for people who are crossing the border a way not to die". This is because an estimated 3,861 to 5,607 people have died over the last 15 years trying to cross the border. The tool works much the way GPS works and helps people to get from one destination to the other plotting the shortest and safest possible way. many illegal immigrants die while trying to cross be getting lost or being abandoned by smugglers. "This cheap app can and will be used by Mexican drug cartels, drug and human smugglers and foreign criminals to commit their crimes on the American side of the border," Schwilk said . "When that happens, Dominguez may be subject to felony aiding and abetting charges." As a human you do not want people to die with the dreams of a better life. Rules are mad...