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...
Introducing Motorola FLIPOUT with MOTOBLUR. This teaser product video shows off the latest Motorola Android 2.1 smartphone featuring enhanced MOTOBLUR. For those looking to stand out from the crowd, but stay in the loop this perfectly pocketable phone offers access to thousands of apps, replacement coloured covers, a full 5 row flip out keyboard, and your entire social life manageable from the homescreen. Will be released in Europe first. Targeted at young users , the Motorola FlipOut runs Android 2.1 and comes with enhanced MotoBlur features, including “Happenings and Messages widgets” and Data Manager. The FlipOut weighs 120 grams and it’s rather thick (17 mm), but that’s because it has a full 5-row QWERTY keyboard. The handset also features social networking integration (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter – you known them), a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, full suite of Google services, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, eCompass, CrystalTalk PLUS, WebKit browser with Adobe Flash, 3.5mm headset jack, 3MP...