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...
With the immense popularity of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Not too far away in the near future. English will not be the dominant language on social sites. Already you might know if you have a large number of Twitter followers and Facebook friends scattered around the world. many of the Tweets and Facebook status are not in English. As people are much more comfortable using their native languages. Half of Twitter users are outside of English speaking countries and social networks are definitely not confined to the English language. Google Chrome has introduced a new extension for your browser, that helps you take care of this problem. Install this extension and you will be able to read all those foreign language Tweets and Status updates right from your browser. This extension uses Google Translate to accomplish the task. Called The Social Translate chrome extension automatically translates event streams and friends’ comments on social network sites. Click here to get the Social Extension from Google Chrome.
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