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...
We all know our good old Google Home page plain white without any color and drama. Well that is now set to change and you can add color to your Google homepage and add some instant personalization to the whole thing. We saw this first on Bing where as soon as you open bing you are greeted with very colorful images. Google now has something similar. Except you get to choose what image you set as the background. Google has this to say about how to set it up How to add a background image Sign in to your Google Account in the top right corner of the Google homepage . Don't have one? It's easy to create a Google Account . Click Change background image in the bottom left corner of the Google homepage. Choose where to select your background image: From my computer : Select an image saved on your computer. My Picasa Web photos : Select an image from your Picasa Web Albums . Public gallery : Select from public photos featured in Picasa Web Albums. Editor's picks : Select fr...