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...
Image: ICS Kayboard One of the cool features that come along with Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) is the new keyboard, which can be a lot of fun. If you have a phone which is non-ICS, you can still get the keyboard on your phone right now. What you do need to have however is a Android 2.2 or higher. So any old Android phone will do provided it is running on at least Android 2.2. The keyboard comes with a lot of new features like better detection and error correction. The App by Developer Johntanmi is available for free but there is a paid version as well. For $1.99 you can get the app with added layouts, and alternative layouts for QWERTY, Dvorak, AZERTY and QWERTZ. The app is not available for tablets but limited to phones only. Available dictionaries on the app include English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch, Russian, Hebrew, Czech, Slovak and Bulgarian. Free Version of ICS Keyboard Paid version if ICS keyboard for Android . An original post by Sociolatte