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...
If you go to Google today you get to see the new Olympics Doodle from Google. It is being called Hurdles 2012. It's a chance for you to run a virtual hurdles race and win gold coins depending on how well you do. If you wondering how to play this Doodle. You need to click the start button and then use the right and left arrow keys to run faster. The more time you click on the keys the faster you will run. When you reach a hurdle, press the space-bar to jump. All a good way to feel a part of the Olympics. There are other Olympic Doodles from Google but this comes with some really nice interactivity. You can play the game and get better with it at practice. You don't need to run fast but if you fingers are fast enough on the keyboard you can earn your three gold coins. If you are satisfied with your results you can share it with your circles on Google+. You can play now by visiting Google - if you want the permalink it is available here www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012.
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