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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 stories where users share their experiences

Well we have Facebook stories and we also have Twitter Tales . So, what's the difference between Facebook stories and Twitter tales. There is one fundamental difference, Facebook stories are stories users can share by simply using the "What's your story" form. People from all over the world have been using this. Twitter Tales are not so basic but actual stories of How Twitter has helped certain people or businesses. The intensity level is high and are stories that were personally submitted to Twitter.  Facebook stories from around the world by Facebook users have their own stories to tell. It is really fascinating to read these stories by people from all ages and all walks of like. You can browse through user's stories either by geographic location or Themes. The Map that you find on Facebook Stories can be viewed either in 2D, 3D, Ariel or the Bird's eye view courtesy of Bing Maps. There are a whole lot of options to find specific users experiences that you ...