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...
When you open Google today you will see the Doodle winner of the Doodle 4 Google Indian winner Arun Kumar Yadav's artwork. The Google Doodle for today has the Indian national bird the peacock, a farmer, a dancer from Kerala, a football (soccer) and some hot spices. Google when launching the competition this year has a theme --unity in diversity. As this is something every Indian knows and if you've been to India. Unity in diversity is something that cannot escape your eye. This creation depicts this in a nice way. http://youtu.be/tZ0AG7QPX3k In India the competition is held for students from class 1-10. The winner gets his or her Doodle on Google's homepage on Nov 14 - which is children's day. So congratulations to the winner and if you are India and want you child to enter you can find more information at Google4Doodle. The competition is held in many countries across the globe. Source: Google 4 Doodle India homepage