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...
Contently: How does it work There is a strong reason for the founders of contently to come up with it. You can sum the whole thing up in the basic philosophy - that large companies always need quality content to be produced regarding their products. One of the best ways to get news out about your company or product is to get people to writ about it and speak about it. One of the best ways to get people chatting about your product is to get a journalist or a blogger - especially one that is well know to write about it. Now getting in touch with a known blogger or journalist can be quiet a tough job and sometimes time consuming. That's why Contently - what it does is connect Bloggers and Journalists with large companies who are in need of content. There seems to be a never ending supply of services and goods that are being rolled out everyday. There would be no point to it if there was no one to spread the word. It is also not just about spreading the word and getting people to writ...