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...
Sony Ericsson has gone social with their Emusicon Pinball game. Free to play and challenge your freinds. You can invite your freinds to play against you and post your high scroes to your wall. Everyone knows the old Pinball game and should be familiar with it. Pinball according to Wikipedia is a type of arcade game , usually coin -operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass -covered case called a pinball machine . The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible. Secondary objectives are to maximize the time spent playing (by earning extra balls and keeping the ball in play as long as possible) and to earn free games (known as replays ). The software version of the game follows the same concept and if you are going to play this game on the Sony Ericsson page you are in for a surprise because it works flawlessly and is fast becoming viral on Facebook. Users and Fans of Son...