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...
Sorry! you've hit your hourly usage limit - this is something that most Twitter users have seen. You login and barely start using the service when this hourly usage thing pops up and then you need to wait. Ever since Twitter started suing their own APIs which is a set or rules or code that websites follow. The service introduced the hourly usage limit feature. Sometimes when it you get the message about the hourly usage limit you might need to just wait a few minutes before things are normal. Some people have reported having to wait for an hour. Not too sure about that since it has never happened to me. I have seen the wait for an hour message but I just refreshed my page and things were normal. Seemed more like a Twitter bug to me. What are Twitter limits Twitter released an official overview of all the Twitter limits that need to be adhered to. These limites include sending only 250 DMs or direct messages per day. Only 1,000 updates a day, 2,000 follow limit. This limit determin...