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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

Shopcade: Use Facebook to shop, find deals and purchase stuff



So in the mood to shop. You can do so sitting in front of your favorite social network - Facebook, and shop along with all your pals. Using Shopcade you can browse through stuff that gets updated real-time and write you recommendation on the same. Discuss it with your friends before you decide to buy anything. 


Shopcade: How does it work
Once you visit the App on Facebook you can begin to browse through categories like, Books, Music, toys Gifts, Travel and Tickets. Browse till you find the right product and then click on the 'Buy Now' link below the product. You will be taken to the merchant's website where you can make the final payment and get your item. The thing about Shopcade is that you can find all the items available on the internet in one place and therefore there is no need to visit multiple sites. There are also some fantastic deals to be had. Shopcade is presently available only in the US and the UK. 


Once you have a list of your favorite brands and items you can then create a personalized Shopcade to share with your friends. Social Shopping is all about the power of group recommendations and with Shopcade you can do just that. 


Some of the features and benefits of Shopcade:

Shopcade allows users to share products from a wide range of categories including; fashion, beauty, tech, music and apps. Some notable features of Shopcade include:

o   Top-trending products – Easily see which products are currently most popular across different categories among your friends or in the whole community;


o   Top-trending Shopcades – Find out which Shopcades are most popular across different categories, among your friends or in the whole community;


o   Easy discovery – Discover which products your friends and the community are sharing, or filter by exact categories and brands you want to see;


o   Mutual rewards – When you buy via another Shopcade, both sides are rewarded with real cash;


o   Personalised recommendations – In addition to your friends’ recommendations, Shopcade also recommends products to you based on your Facebook “likes;”


o   Personal URL – Personal Shopcade URLs allow you to place your Shopcade on your blog and other social media channels.


Visit Shopcade on Facebook now to start shopping. Don't miss out on the deals to be had for Christmas this year. 






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