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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...

Picsho: Create image galleries from Social Sites

Social Sites like Twitter, Instagram and Twitpic have millions of photos being shared. Too bad there is not a single place for you to curate and collect all these images. A lot of the wonderful work being done by people gets lost in cyberspace. Web app Picsho changes all of that - you can use this service to quickly curate an image gallery and share with your friends via social networks like Twitter and Facebook. The best part is your gallery gets a permanent home on the web. This way your collections always have a home for you to refer to and all those amazing pics and images will be available whenever you want it. If you are creative enough you can build an image gallery that you friend will like and also share. Image curation on the net is not a new thing. We have already written on how to create an Instagram photo collage .  Picsho: How does it work 1. Visit Picsho and start building your image gallery. You do not need to create an account to use the site. So get started right away...