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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 Add a Twitter Account to Feedburner

You can now auto Tweet your blog updates right from Feedburner. Feedburner will also add Hashtags if you want and there is also the option to leave room for Retweets. This will help you save time and you do not have to be bothered with going to Twitter each time and copy paste your blog feed updates. Feedburner also has a link shortening service the famous goo.gl. So your updates get automatically Tweeted and you make sure your RSS feeds are reaching the Social World. You might be wondering what the pros and cons are well the most obvious one is that if you life to customize your Tweets. In the sense you personalize your Tweets a lot then this option might feel a little vague. Because all the Tweets going out have a factory look and feel very professional. Positively this really saves time and gives you a chance to get on with your content and not having to bother with updating your Twitter account as this gets updated automatically. Also since your links have the goo.gl tag which is t...

How to troubleshoot FeedBurner feeds not being updated

If you find that you feeds are not being updated in FeedBurner here are a few things you can do to troubleshoot and find out what the problem is. You can ping FeedBurner with you website address, What this does is ping FeedBurner and get your feeds updated immediately and not their regular 30 minute intervals. Click here to ping FeedBurner now .  If this does not work you will need to login to your account  1. Click on the feed that your having trouble with 2. Click on Troubleshootize 3. Click on Resync Now Remember to click on Resync Now only if you feed has not been updated for over an hour after clicking on Ping. If this does not work you would need to check your feed validity. You can use www.FeedValidator.org to check you feeds validity. You can go to the original site but the better option is to use it right from your FeedBurner account. 1. Click on the feed that your having trouble with 2. Click on Troubleshootize 3. Beside the option "The Fix" there is the option for...