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...
Image: Forbes Forbes have come up with their most powerful list of people for the year 2011. You are not going to believe who is at number 9. Well the title already says who it is but it just makes you think at the power that belongs to 'Mark Zuckerberg'. These 4 factors are considered before a person appears on this list. 1. Number of people the person has power over. So a CEO will have employees as his numbers. 2. Financial resources controlled by each person 3. Is the candidate influential in more than one Arena or Sphere. 4. How actively do they wield their power. This brings Mark Zuckerberg to 9th place. All of us are a part of Facebook, well mostly everyone. There are those who gave up or never joined at all. The rest of us belong to his kingdom and his majesty seems to be really powerful. Forbes to state that he more powerful than even the Dalai Lama. Social Media has grown in leaps and bounds and here is proof. Mark Zuckerberg is the King of Social Media and those of ...