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...
After spending a good sum of money on your Flat Screen TV. You would like to keep it clean of smudges, fingerprints and grime. There is a proper way to do it and a moist cloth should do the trick. You would also need to be careful about common cleaning products as they can do more good than harm. Here is a step by step guide on how to clean your flat screen TV 1. Disconnect your TV from the power socket before you start cleaning. This will ensure that you can also see the smudges a lot better. 2. Choose either lukewarm water of a cleaning solution. Commercial cleaning kits are available that contain both a cloth and the solution. make sure you see the safe for "Laptop Screens" and "LCD Screens" on the label. They should specifically mention that is safe for "Laptop Screens" and "LCD Screens". 3. Dampen a soft cloth ( chamois preferably, micro fiber or 100 percent cotton). With either the lukewarm water or the cleaning solution and gently rub. Do ...