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...
Google turns 14 on September 27 and has a doodle out to celebrate. The doodle consists of an animated chocolate cake which gets nibbled on and you're left with the center of the cake spelling the word -- Google. There are also 14 candles left to celebrate Google 14th. You might be interested to note that 27th was not the day Google was founded. Google as a company was incorporated on the 4th of September 1998. They however use 27 more out of convince, something they started doing from 2005. The 27th coincided with the record number of pages the search engine was indexing.
Google Doodles are very popular with internet users and the last few Doodles for the Olympics were all the buzz, they were animated and you could also win gold coins. Clicking on the doodle will take you news about Google and a list of all their services listed.
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