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...
John Mayor fears that his love for Tweeting, Social Networking and Modern Technology could have cost him his relationship with actress Jennifer Aniston. She said this obsession of his was a 'courting distraction'. “One of the most significant differences between us was that I was tweeting. There was a rumour I was dumped because I was tweeting too much. That wasn’t it,” Contactmusic quoted him as telling Playboy magazine. “The brunt of her success came before (showbiz news website) TMZ and Twitter. I think she’s still hoping it goes back to 1998. “She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction, and I always said, ‘These are the new rules’,” he added. Keep Tweeting John there are lots of people who like to hear what you say. An original post by Sociolatte