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...
CEO of Twitter speaks about @anywhere and what he sees as the important thing of the social network. @ Anywhere has to do with following individuals more than a whole bunch of people. So if you want to follow someone without getting involved with all your other contacts posting on your timeline, you could now use @anywhere to follow individuals and not get caught up with all the noise on your Twitter main page. He also says he does not look at Twitter as a social network but more as an information network. An original post by Sociolatte