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...
lately there have been some high profile American starts joining the Chinese microblogging site weibo. Weibo.com is a Twitter styled website built in China and catering to all Chinese speaking people. The site already has 140 million users and growing, akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook is has already become one of the most popular sites in China.
The site is availbale in simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The site also has version catering to users from Malaysia, Hong kong and Taiwan. The growth of the service has now induced the same celebrities that made Twitter popular to now start using Weibo. If all reports are to be believed Emma Watson has joined the service after high-profile star Tam Hanks did. This is a logical thing to do if stars are to reach out to this growing number of fans in Chinese speaking countries. All this coming at a time when Google has launched their Social Networking site and drawing users away from Twitter and Facebook.
Some differences you will note is that the Chinese site does not stick to the 140 character limit the way Twitter does. Once you reach the site you see a timeline with the latest Tweets and a list of interesting people to follow. The Chinese site also boasts of a large number of celebrities who have joined the site. Chinese sites are growing in popularity and cannot be ignored, especially with the large fan base they have and an ever increasing interactive audience.
The site is availbale in simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The site also has version catering to users from Malaysia, Hong kong and Taiwan. The growth of the service has now induced the same celebrities that made Twitter popular to now start using Weibo. If all reports are to be believed Emma Watson has joined the service after high-profile star Tam Hanks did. This is a logical thing to do if stars are to reach out to this growing number of fans in Chinese speaking countries. All this coming at a time when Google has launched their Social Networking site and drawing users away from Twitter and Facebook.
Some differences you will note is that the Chinese site does not stick to the 140 character limit the way Twitter does. Once you reach the site you see a timeline with the latest Tweets and a list of interesting people to follow. The Chinese site also boasts of a large number of celebrities who have joined the site. Chinese sites are growing in popularity and cannot be ignored, especially with the large fan base they have and an ever increasing interactive audience.
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