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...
Franchises is a fun and exciting feature that lets you expand your businesses to your neighbor’s cities. To start a Franchise you have to have that business already built in your city, some businesses you can purchase early on in the game, while other have higher level requirements, but you can unlock them with city cash early. This post is an official guide from the CityVille team to help you get started on expanding your business to your neighbor's cities. Step 1: Expanding to a neighbor’s city. To start a franchise you have to have the business already build in your city, then visit a neighbor with an available empty lot. Clicking on that empty lot will bring up all the business you own. We’re going to select and place the bakery. Once you select it you will see an arrow letting you know where it can be placed. After you have placed your business in your neighbor’s city you have to wait for them to accept it. Step 2: Collecting and sending a sale. Once your neighbor accepts yo...