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...
Justin Bieber's YouTubeVEVO channel is the first to cross the 2 billion mark. This makes him the first person to have so many views and the first artist to cross the 2 billion milestone. Lady Gag was the previous artists who achieved the 1billion total uploaded views no YouTube. Justin now holds the record for crossing the 2 billion mark. This sudden surge of views was because of the release of his song release of the singer's Christmas son 'Mistletoe'. This record is not all that rosy because some of his videos have made it to the most 'Disliked Videos on YouTube' in this record he stands second only to Rebecca Black and her song 'Friday' which received way more dislikes that likes. In fact Justine's video 'Baby' has a .488 like to dislike ration, which means that for every like there are two dislikes. Many of his videos attract trolls who simply like to hate whatever he does. There are enough hate 'Justin Bieber' pages on Facebook...