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...
This is something that has been expected for a long time. It took its time coming but the world finally has a Social media print magazine. The first issue is already out and is available at the Barns & Nobel bookstore chains in the US as well as in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.. The magazine is published by the cool blue company. The magazine also has an App for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad. Visiting the magazine's homepage on the net doesn't have too much to offer. You can check out the contents of the first subscription in the image. There is not much else to say other that to ask what are your views and thoughts on the same. An original post by Sociolatte