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...
If you are following the world cup on Twitter. You will notice a tiny little football beside all those world cup hashtags. If you click on it you are taken to a special page that has been launched specially by Twitter to help you follow the world cup properly. After all Twitter is the place to find news and the latest happenings. It comes as no surprise then that twitter is the place to follow the world cup online. There are two columns on the page. The left column has all the top tweets related to the world cup while the right column has a list of all the matches to be played. If you click on view match you get to read all that people are saying about that match in real-time. On the top header of the page there is a list of all the flags. Clicking on one of these flags allows you to see what people are saying about that country on Twitter in regards to the world cup. Below are a few definitions that will help you follows their page with more clarity. Click here to access the Twitt...