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...
With it's growing popularity both online and offline. The Global Language Monitor is reporting that "Twitter" is the most used work in the English language. It has surpassed words like Obama and H1N1 the scientific name for swine flu. With twitter all forms of communication has been limited to 140 characters that has done wonders for the Social Site. With its huge popularity with celebrities and businesses both big and small. This comes as no surprise. Even people who actually do not use twitter still talk about it. That it's doing the rounds comes as no surprise. You're either talking about it or using it. Either ways people have some sort of affiliation to Twitter. "The Top Words are culled from throughout the English-speaking world, which now numbers more than 1.58 billion speakers".. An original post by Sociolatte