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...
Since cell phone warranties do not cover accidental water damage, it is up to you to save you cell phone if it accidentally falls into water. Cell Phones are slick and can sometimes all too easily slip out of a persons hand. Smartphones do not come with water proof warranties either. So here is what you need to do if you cell phone or mobile phone falls into water. These steps will help you try to save your phone. 1. Act fast - immediately take it out of the water and remove the battery and SIM card. Do not attempt to switch on the phone to see if it still works, as this will only damage the circuits. Taking out the battery and SIM card gives you phone a better chance of survival and your SIM card a better chance of retaining all your saved data. 2. Dry Quickly - Compressed air or a wet/dry vacuum are ideal to quickly dry water. Avoide heat which means do not use a hair dryer, Ovens, Microwaves, heat Lamp or direct Sunlight. The reason being the heat could warp you phone and damage...