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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

Arrived: How does it work

Arrived is the new App that lets your friends know you've arrived. There is no need to check-in using this location based App. All you need to do is to show up at your favorite place and it automatically lets you friends know you have arrived. The concept behind the App goes something like this. Once you download and install the App you can then add a list of places you are most likely to visit. Then add a list of friends who you know would like to know you are there. Once you arrive at the place you are automatically checked-in and your friends know you've arrived. They can then come over and meet you. when choosing places you are most likely to visit you can also add a list of friends who would like to know you have arrived at the spot. Therefore each spot or place can have a different list of friends The interesting thing about this App is that it is going to find good use among close circles of friends. So let's say you and your pals meet up everyday after college at yo...