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...
The makes of this app say that it has been inspired by the best-selling book 'Never eat alone'. There is a truth to this whole thing especially if you are serious about networking with your LinkedIn contacts. This app will come in handy for recruiters, people getting started in their careers and entrepreneurs. The built using the LinkedIn API promises to be able to set up meaningful face-to-face conversations with contacts who could prove useful to you. It's one thing to meet and network on LinkedIn and quiet another to take those contacts to the next level with a face to face meeting. How does LunchMeet work. The way this App works is that you sign-in with your current location, let the App know where you will be available and when and let it search among your contacts for people who would also be available at that time. You can then invite people for lunch/drinks and build your networking contacts. The App is free to download from iTunes and can be used on your iPhone, ...