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...
MTV has a brand new feature that is being rolled out slowly and it is being called Artists.MTV. This site will feature artists and they will have to maintain their own space. The reason we are calling it space is because each artist is given their own profile and if you look at their profiles it is like an old MySpace profile. You have Blog Posts, videos, photos, lyrics and more. So with each profile there are whole lot of options to browse and find out more about your favorite artist. Each profile is generated automatically and it is up to the artist to maintain their profile. Once the profile page is generated there is also the ability to earn money from it for the artists. MTV has partnered with Topspin which will essentially allow artists to sell music, merchandise etc and earn money and fame from their profiles, they can also participate with in-ad revenue and get a share from the ads that are displayed on their profiles. If it would work then this would become a popular destinati...