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...
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown wars is now available for download on the iTunes store. Developed by Rockstar Leeds studio, this GTA game seems like direct port of DS and PSP title. In this game, protagonist Huang Lee is out to deliver ancient sword to his Uncle Kenny after his father's murder. Lee's delivery of the sword will ensure regaining control of the Triad gangs of the Liberty City by his family. After being robbed and left to die in the morally bankrupt city, Lee will head out to seek his revenge. Controls of joystick are given on the screen and appear to be bit translucent. Game graphics looks neat, at least in images. This game is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch devices running iPhone OS 3.1.2 firmware or higher. The game , originally released for the Nintendo DS in 2009, has a number of improvements, including multi-touch controls, adjusted difficulty levels, and enhanced presentation with 480x320 pixel resolution graphics. Users can also access Independence Ra...