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...
Flipboard is an App that has taken the web by storm again. The reason for this is that today the Flipboard App for iPhone has been released. Flipboard was till now an App for the iPad, things have changed and everyone is raving about the new app that has come to the iPhone bringing with it all your favorite features that have made this app so remarkably popular on the iPad. Flipboard how does it work The App is your own personalized magazine which brings everything being shared with you and everything that matters to you. It has a really nice interface and you can flip through all your photos and watch videos, read articles or browse through photo albums. Once you download the App you can then connect it to your favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. You can also connect it to your favorite publications to receive articles. Once you have all this working everything will be presented to you in the shape and form of an article with beautiful rendering. Yo...