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...
Image Credit: Stuff.co.nz Facebook has begun testing a new feature in a country where it seems to do all it's testing - New Zealand. Spotted by one user who spread the news which in turn caught on like wildfire. It is something called a "Highlight". This option will let your post stay a little longer on top of your friends news feeds to make sure that more of your friends get to see your status updates. This hold good if you also have subscribers. In case your're wondering why Facebook would be offering something like this it is because your status updates get seen by only 12% of your friends on average. This has been called by many Facebook users as "Facebook Narcissism" meaning in our modern day use of the word - egoism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Why would users want to highlight their posts, maybe to get more replies and likes? Facebook 'Highlight' how does it work? When you post a status updated you will see 'Highlight' next...