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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...

How To Stop your photo and social actions from appearing on Facebook Ads

There have been many complaints from people who suddenly find that there photo has appeared on a Facebook Ad. It goes a little further than that if you click on 'like an Ad' that would also appear on your recent activity. This is quiet annoying and should not be done because Facebook is making money on those Ads and technically if they use your picture that they might as well share some of the revenue with you. So for those who would rather not have their photo published and neither have their recent social actions on Facebook Ads publishes. Here is what you need to do. 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on Account 3. Select the option Facebook Ads (Top Bar) 4. Beside the tab ' Allow ads on platform pages to show my information to' Select 'No One" 5. Right at the bottom of the page you find the second option 'Show my social actions in Facebook Ads to' again choose the option 'No One' With this your done and will ensure that Facebook Ads do not use yo...