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...
This is a really interesting App and it works like this. It is the traditional internet chat rooms that we are all familiar with but this is on the iPhone enhanced with Geolocation. So you can download the App create a chat room or join one that has already been created, the thing about all these chat rooms is that they are located near you. So you can join a group of people and just chat. The App uses Facebook connect to login and uses your Facebook picture as your avatar. There are lot's of rooms and one big room called everyone party. There are no private chats, direct messaging or profiles. You login and join a chat room or create one of your own and join the conversation with people who are located near you. The uses for the App are numerous and some creative people are going to make good use of it. MessageParty on the net Messageparty on iTunes An original post by Sociolatte