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...
Launched on Feb 14, Angry Birds officially comes to Facebook. With it comes brand new power-ups and Facebook exclusive levels. The game is so popular that the Facebook page already has well over 15 million Likes. After the game's phenomenal success on SmartPhones, game maker Rovio would now like to tap into Facebook's 800 million members. After its release on Apple's iOS the game app have been downloaded over 700 million times. Now with its launch on Facebook it is sure to hit the 1 billion mark. Anyone playing the game between now and Feb 16, will receive 14 free power-ups as a special valentine's day gift from the game maker. The Facebook version includes four new power-ups, including "sling scope" (even better targeting), "king sling" (get more power and velocity), "super seeds" (get to supersize your bird and turn it into a 'pig popping giant'), and "birdquake" (shale-up the battlefield and bring down pigs' defens...