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...
Anonymous are at it again with the threat to shutdown and kill Facebook. The hacktervist group have always said that they distrusted Facebook privacy policies and were against it. The group had previously threatened the same thing but nothing happened. This time they have posted a new video on YouTube with their threats rejuvenated and their operation against Facebook is being called "#Operation Fawkes Virus'. This comes soon after Facebook have acknowledged that the service has been hacked and yes images of violence and porn have been posted on users profiles. This has led to a lot of embarrassing moments for many of Facebook's users. In the video Anonymous says that 'Your beloved social network has recently become a place of sex, violence, anarchy and chaos'. 'And yes we will kill Facebook for real'. You can check out Anonymous on Twitter here.
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