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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...

Twitter HQ flashmob (Official video)

Twitter did something and also gave it a philosophical annotation 'If you can't Bieb them, join them' - Abraham Lincoln. Well the story about this flashmob is this. Twitter called all of its employees for a hackweek project on July 12th. When employees were in the cafeteria Justin Bieber's song 'baby' is heard over the speakers. A male Twitter employee jumps up on the table to begin his routine and is soon followed by the mob. This flashmod also has a hashtag #flockmob you can also find people speaking about it on Twitter using the hashtag #hackweek. justin Bieber is set to cross 25 million fans in maybe a day and will become the second most followed person on Twitter, only behind Lady Gaga who has 27 million followers. So check the video out below and also let us now your favorite flashmob video on YouTube.  An original post by Sociolatte