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...
Jordan Crawford dunks on LeBron James. Over the summer, the Xavier University guard created quite a stir when he slammed home a two-handed dunk on James during one of The King’s trumpeted skills camps in Akron. Instantly, heavy-handed Nike officials confiscated the video so no one could see their cash cow being posterized. Footage still leaked out, and Crawford became a YouTube hit. Dunking On LeBron Jordan Crawford talks about dunking on LeBron James and the missing tapes. There were two people running the recordings and both of them had to surrender their tapes to Nike. The Footage however leaked out. We will keep you posted on this story. An original post by Sociolatte