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 Google Doodle today celebrates Pierre de Fermat's birthday with a logo and a hidden message in Fermat's Doodle. The message reads 'I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain.' The Google logo today has a chalkboard with the Google name partly erased which also symbolically has the same number of letters as Google and looks a lot like the name Google. Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician and lawyer whose most famous work was the theorem in which he states that ' no three positive integers x, y, and z can satisfy the equation xn + yn = zn where n is an integer greater than two.' Fermat is also recognized for his discovery of the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is comparable to another branch of mathematics, the differential calculus. Apparently, Calculus is divided into two parts, the integral and the differential. Today is Pierre de Fermat's 410th birth anniversary.
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