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...
Companies both large and small are turning to social networking sites for a number of reasons. 1. With the large pool of people on these sites it becomes necessary to have a presence on the sites. Facebook offers pages where companies can create their profile and users or fans can join these pages and get up to date information from the company. It adds a real social feel to the company and new product role outs can now be done live on a Facebook page. 2. Twitter with its versatile openness to one and all offers companies to reach out to customers and clients much more easily. People find their fav companies on twitter and become followers. This allows companies to much more easily push their products and their services. Feedback is also live as they can track in real-time what is being said about them. 3. Companies needs to have a social presence. It seems much easier to have a social presence than to have a social site. It is less expensive as Facebook and Twitter can Handel the traf...