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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...

Blippr: How does it work

It is safe to say that Blippr is a place for you to find and share things that you like. People are always searching for stuff like what is a nice book to read, movie to watch, iPhone App to help you shop and what not. Blippr present you with a new way to find books you never heard about before, introduce you to new music both in terms of upcoming artists and new genres. It will also help you find useful Apps to make your everyday life easier.  Blippr has a way of tracking your tastes and recommending things you might like. This is done by learning more about you by the things you do and the people you connect with on the site. If you are interested in Media primarily you can find a lot of it on Blippr.  The unique thing about the site is you can browse through stuff and share your opinion. You can also read what other people have to save about the product or media you are interested in. The thing about it though is that you do not have to trudge through long reviews about the product ...