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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

MyTown: How does it work

What is MyTown and how does it work. MyTown is a GPS game built around the concept of buying and owning your favorite local shops, restaurants, and hangouts on your iPhone,iPod Touch and the iPad.  Firstly you need to Check-in at real-world locations to unlock rewards. Then you can buy and own your favorite real-life places. Then you can collect rent when people Check-in to your shops. The more visitors that come to your stores, the more it raises your properties' total value.  The more you Check-in to places you like, the faster you'll level-up to unlock more locations to buy and upgrade, and the higher you'll climb up the leaderboard rankings.  MyTown , uses GPS features to check-in at real-world locations to unlock rewards. Players can buy and upgrade shops. Owning and enjoying MyTown ownership of real-life places that they like. Users can also collect rent when other people check-in to their shops. The more a certain places is frequented the more it's value and r...