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...
Twitter is abuzz with the TT 'Canon 1D', reference to the new camera from Canon. The new EOS 1D x comes with a host of features that most photographers will want. One of the most notable features in the camera is Wireless Lan Ethernet Connection with the WFT-E6A. What this essentially does it allow you to capture images and then start uploading right away. So this way if you are in a politically sensitive area you can take your shots and starts your uploading using a mobile hotspot. Maybe you get caught by the cops who ask you to delete your photos, you can delete it in front of them since you would have already stored a backup copy on your home PC. Signal strength will be a factor however. The DSLR will also come with multi-exposure capability, which means you can combine up to 9 images into 1 frame without the next of an external computer. The Cannon 1D X features a 35 mm sized sensor and is 18 mpx, giving it low noise and dynamic range. You can also record video for up to ...