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...
President Shimon Perez launched his own YouTube channel yesterday in an effort to communicate with Israelis and citizens of countries with which Israel does not have diplomatic ties. " Peres announced his new channel at a press conference at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, alongside YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley , who is currently visiting Israel". The channel will also be used to launch web conferences where people can talk with the president directly. " Peres has uploaded to his channel important speeches, such as his acceptance of the Nobel Prize; key events, such as Hillary Clinton’s first official visit as U.S. secretary of state; and comedy films, including a few satires ." There was also comments on YouYube's profitability by Chad Hurley. Who said... " Hurley said YouTube continues to grow in terms of traffic, reaching more than 1 billion views a day , while receiving nearly 24 hours of video every minute." An origi...