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...
With all the rumors flying around it is finally good that Apple has announced a Jan 27 date to announce their new device. 'Come see our latest creation' the invite said. The invitation-only event that will be held at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater read “Come see our latest creation." Fox News had this to say Reports suggest that this device has been years in the making (just take a look at this enthusiast-generated gallery of Apple table concepts , originally posted to Gizmodo two years ago), and I'm as excited to see it as you are. I spoke to a source at Apple this morning, before the invite hit my inbox, who said the event would likely focus on three projects: The tablet device, iPhone 4, and a new round of iLife 2010 software. While we won't see new iPhone hardware just yet, we will see the next-generation software. Apple is known to pull a last-minute rabbit out of a hat, however ... and just as likely to stuff it back in again. ...