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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...

Facebook now has an Safety Advisor Board

Facebook has begun to take steps to strengthen it's online safety norms . The council at present is represented by  members of "Common Sense Media", "ConnectSafely", ChildNet INternational" and "The Family Online Safety Institute". The task assigned is to look into all the safety issues more responsible and provide guidance to parents, teaches and teens. The safety resources on Facebook will be turned into something much more comprehensive and a place where information may be easily looked into. • Guidance on responsible social networking and being a good digital citizen online. • Development of educational resources on Facebook. • Users helping users, awareness and education all this to keep everyone safe online. To read the company blog on the same click here They will look into various issues like phishing and cyberbullying "When you have the entire world online on one network, you need to create a community approach to safety ...