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...
Google Flight search has just launched and is available only in the US as of now. Google Flight search is fast an interactive. it let's you play around the find the cheapest flight as well and other fun option. For example if you want to know where $300 will get your from your current city you can do that and get a result of how far you can travel from where you presently are and also the prices of tickets for you to return home. All-in-all a fun application that allows you to get the best deal. How does Google Flight search work just go to Google.com and type a flight related search. You then see the airplane icon on the left-hand tool bar, click it and start your search or you can simply go to www.google.com/flights . Once you start your search you have a map to guide you and gives you a perspective of your destination. If it is a large city with more than one airport then you can also see the airport name you would like to land in. You can then key in your dates and there is a d...