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...
After all the news on the Pac-Man anniversary and Google's logo that had the game on it. Google calls these creatives doodles. Well after the initial hype and the response to the Pac-Man doodle. Google has given Pac-Man a permanent home. For all those Pac-Man enthusiasts. The day the doodle was released it hit the Trending topics on Twitter and stayed there for a few days. News sites and blogges wrote constantly about it. Pac-Man is one of the most successful games ever created. It has always been viral and people of all ages have been drawn to it. Kids at home an adults at work. It allows people to escape for all the pressures of life. Ok, will not go on and on about it. If you would like to play Pac-Man on Google here is the link. http://www.google.com/pacman/ An original post by Sociolatte