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 slowing rolling update for FrontierVille’s latest content release of the new Foundry and Varmint Cannons should have finally reached everyone by now! It took a little while, but these new items should be available for use on your homestead. Foundry Building - 50000 gold, 50 wood + you have to gather 5 Shingles, 5 Pegs, 5 Mallets, 5 Cements, 5 Windows. 25 Whacks. Building it may drop common and uncommon collectibles only. Finishing and daily bonus can drop rare piece. Inside you can craft: 1x Saltpeter + 5x Fire = 4x Powder Keg. Additional daily bonuses are: Manure Collection – All five types Saltpeter Powder Keg 50 – 100 Gold 50-100 XP There are four cannons you can buy in foundry building - Snake Cannon – 2nd Goal – 5000 Gold Groundhog Cannon – 3rd Goal – 30000 Gold Fox Cannon – 4th Goal – 55000 Gold Bear Cannon – 5th Goal – 80000 Gold New Goals: Build a Foundry - One Saltpeter (From turning in Manure Collection) - Craft One Fire (7 Wood and 5 Cloth in the Wagon make one Fire) - F...