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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...
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Bill Gates spotted dancing.

Bill Gates has taken to it he joins Twitter, starts a Facebook page and launches a website to share his thoughts. Now he gets jiggy with it. "He gyrated in a VIP booth until 2 AM," a "spy" told the Post's Page Six--a gossip item, so take it with a grain of salt. "Everybody was snapping photos of him until his security rushed him out the back door after he tipped a waitress $500." Society blog Guest of a Guest has photos! Looks like Gates was fist-pumping, "Jersey Shore"-style! An original post by Sociolatte
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Want to know what Bill Gates is thinking?

Yes after joining Twitter and Facebook Bill Gates has now launched a  website  to share his thoughts. On his website you see the sections What I'm thinking about, What I'm learning, Curious Classroom, My travels, Conversations and Infrequently asked questions. The website is filled with info on what Bill is on about these days. There is also a lot of learning to be had from the website. Where he does try to answer as best the problems of poverty and energy and what he things is the way these issues need to be addressed. He has also now got a lot of exposure in the field and is sharing all this with people who would like to know. All in all he sounds like a teacher and if your expecting to read anything personal forget it. This is all about Bill Gates and his charity work. An original post by Sociolatte
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Hello World, Bill Gates has joined Twitter and Facebook

Hello world, Bill Gates has joined twitter and is available @BillGates . He also launched a Facebook page located here .  As this post is being written there are already 56,076 people following Bill Gates and it is increasing by the hour. His first post was  "Hello World." Hard at work on my foundation letter - publishing on 1/25.   RyanSeacrest      Just got a call from cnn. here are the final numbers raised from last nights show.. for unicef + american red cross $8,944,956 Thank You! TIME      We've assembled a list of sources tweeting live from Haiti - follow it here:  http://twitter.com/TIME/haiti @ RyanSeacrest  - thanks for your work on this, it will have a real impact for the people in Haiti who need it most. Bill Gates also follows 40 people. His Facebook page at this time has 50,977 fans and set to increase. His latest post has his photos from India. where he did work on his Bill and Malinda Gates foundation.  Gates had once said that he was on Facebook but said ...
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