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...
Twitter has added a new feature on it's website. You can now find out what is trending locally. Currently 7 countries and 12 US cites have been added. We expect the to add lot's more soon. How to find local trending topics near you. Under the search bar on the right hand column of your Twitter home page you see the topic "Trending" with a small upward pointing arrow. Click on that arrow to be show there current local trending topics by regions. As see below. Countries Worldwide Brazil Canada Ireland Mexico United Kingdom United States Cities Atlanta Baltimore Boston Chicago Dallas-Ft. Worth Houston London Los Angeles New York City Philadelphia San Antonio San Francisco Seattle São Paulo Washington, D.C. An original post by Sociolatte