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+ now has an all new feature called Events. This is something that users on Facebook have enjoyed for quiet sometime. Google+ now brings the ability to create an event and invite your circles and friends to your events. When creating an event on Google+ you can share photo instantly with everyone using the party mode. Once the event is over everyone's photo will be on the event page. So all attendees and those who missed the fun can view all the pics and check out the fun you and your buddies had. The whole process of creating a Google+ event is quiet simple and all you need to do to get started is to login to Google+ and click the Events Tab. Google+ Events - How to create an event 1. Login to Google+ 2. Click on events 3. Select 'Create an event' 4. Enter a Title for your event 5. Set the time 6. Click on event options for the following - a. guests can invite other people b. guests can ad photos c. Advanced Options will allow Event on a Google+ hangout or Event on ...