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...
We have already written about the new social networking site known as Pheed . Pheed has a lot of other site's functions built into it - like Facebook news feed and the ability to add hashtags like in Twitter and Google+. Pheed is the new fun social media site on the net and on mobile web. There is a iPhone app for it and the Android app will be out soon. Apart form all of this Pheed has one important function. If you're sharing a video or a photo that belongs to you. You can add a copyright and then share it with your followers. To get this job done is very easy and offers many benefits. Let's say you have not added a watermark your photo and simply want to share it. You can do so on Pheed and the site will add a watermark with your copyright at the bottom of your photo, image or video. This way you can share and not be worried that people will steal it and not give you credit for it. People can still be able to use it as watermarks can be removed - although not a simple pr...