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 founder Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend said that online privacy is no longer the 'social norm'. With more and more people getting connected online and sharing information it is no longer something to be worried about. With the rise of blogs and other social mediums people are sharing all kinds of things. A lot of the information being shared is also quiet personal. Reflecting the state of the companies privacy outlook. Their recent change sparked a lot of angry protests online. But we did not see people leaving the site in their 1,000. It looks like everyone stayed and got on with things. These changes initiated on Facebook reflect the social norms as it is today and as Facebook see it. "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," he said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time." Zuckerberg s...