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...
Here comes another Google+ tip and this time not a big one but a fun one nevertheless. Once you reach the bottom of your stream or even if you are in the middle and you know your Google+ stream can get quiet long. Especially if you follow a lot of people who post many updates every day. If you are an active Google+ user I do not need to mention the names, it is actually fun and well the team at Google have added a little bit more fun. you can now autoscroll back to the top iPhone style. All you need to do to scroll back to the top is to click on the top bar. The black bar located on top of your Google+ page and you are autoscrolled back to where you began. This tip was first posted by Casey on Google+.
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