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...
Everyone who has seen the slides of the girl who quiet her job after her boss installed a snitch, to see how everyone at the office was spending their time. Will know by now that those slides have become an internet meme. If you haven't seen the HOPA Slideshow click here. Well the thing is that it was a Hoax created by a website called "The Chive". Thanks to Facebook which sent a million viewers after people started sharing the page using Facebook's like button. 457,153 have clicked the like button till now and this number is not going to stop growing for sometime. TechCrunch TV met up with Elise (Heroin) and theChive co-founder, John Resig to discuss the whole thing in detail. Genius ideas we must say from the chive. They really know how to create an internet meme.
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