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...
The Song A day by Mann is getting a lot of good attention and good reviews. This song he did about Steve Jobs has lyrics like.
“If that sounds like Moses, it’s no accident. The cult of Macintosh is a religion.”
“We bow down to products that make us weep. The beauty of simplicity. The shepherd and his sheep.”
“In his guarded temple, there’s a beating drum. And it’s made of glass and of aluminum.”
People are listening to his songs because of one prominent thing, the tunes are really catch and lyrics very apt. You need to listen to know for yourself. His song about the Antenna was also played at the Apple Press Conference held recently to discuss the Antenna problem of the iPhone 4.
“If that sounds like Moses, it’s no accident. The cult of Macintosh is a religion.”
“We bow down to products that make us weep. The beauty of simplicity. The shepherd and his sheep.”
“In his guarded temple, there’s a beating drum. And it’s made of glass and of aluminum.”
People are listening to his songs because of one prominent thing, the tunes are really catch and lyrics very apt. You need to listen to know for yourself. His song about the Antenna was also played at the Apple Press Conference held recently to discuss the Antenna problem of the iPhone 4.
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