Trump and Xi meet today in Beijing

Bilateral talks, formal banquet, the architecture of the next decade arranged in a room with porcelain on the table. The two leaders sit across the most consequential bilateral in modern history while Russia, in parallel, test-fires its new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile — the most powerful weapon in its strategic arsenal, set to enter combat service at the end of the year. Both events are processed by Western press as middle-of-the-page items. CNBC leads with markets at fresh highs; ...

The gap is the diagnostic: when the two largest economies meet to set planetary order and the third tests its newest nuclear delivery system on the same day, and the lead news of the morning is bitcoin near $80k — the collective gaze has decided which architectures it can still afford to contain in feeling. Geopolitics has become weather. We dress for it without naming it.