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...
In a fast paced world where brief status updates are considered an ideal way to stay in touch is it any wonder that Employers may go the same way. TechCrunch reported a Craigslist job posting in Greenwich Village for a Twitter Genius. We have posted the original requirements of the job below. So if your good on Twitter and can say what you want within the 140 character limitation you have a nice job in social media. Something that many Tweeple would like to have. Find a job doing something you do even in your sleep. As happens to many people IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS JOB, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW EXACTLY. NO DEVIATIONS: (i) Email me two tweets. The first should be about your experience. The second should by why you're perfect for this job. If you exceed twitter's allotted character count, you're done. (ii) Email me your Twitter name in link form (e.g. http://www.twitter.com/YOURNAME) (iii) Tell me how many followers you have and how many people you follow. (iv) T...