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...
Steve Jobs' sister Mona Simpson was by his side during his final moments and she speaks about what she thought he was going through and what his last words were. If you read the whole eulogy you will be touched at the life of Steve Jobs and what everything meant to him. There has been a lot of criticism regarding the way he would treat some employees and there has also been a lot of decoding of Steve Jobs' last words on the web. A lot of what people have to say about his last words is not worth reading and once you know what his last words were I suggest you give it your own interpretation as Steve Jobs's said 'Follow your heart'. You know what's best and right for you. Trust your own intuition. This is the words taken as it is from the eulogy of Mona Simpson, Steve's sister. He seemed to be climbing. But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more bea...