Trump landed in Beijing tonight. Xi sent his vice president to the airport. The Secretary of State entered China under a name China rewrote to get around its own sanctions. The summit begins now. The rest of the world is not watching the same meeting you are.
① Trump’s arrival in Beijing, the CEO delegation as its own story, the Taiwan reversal on the plane, and what the international press — from Al Jazeera to The Economist to Renmin University — is actually saying about who holds the leverage in that room.
② Israel killed 12 people, including children, on a Lebanese highway today. The Lebanese delegation arrives in Washington tomorrow for peace talks.
③ The Senate voted again today to invoke the War Powers Act. It failed again. Murkowski’s deadline expires Friday.
“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1789
