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...
Sabbath Manifesto: Put down the Blackberry. Stop with the Facebook status updates. Quit Tweeting. Sign out of Gmail. Unplug, unwind and power down. Join us in fighting back against the tidal wave of technology taking over society and our lives. The ancient Jewish manifesto that God made all things in six days and rested on the seventh is back. A group of Jewish hyper connected individuals want to slow things down and reconnect with the real. They are asking people to totally unplug from Technology on the National Day of unplug March 19 -20 sunset to sunset. Will you do it? It sounds good with all the Tweets and Facebook status updates and live feeds happening. Driving people to sit more in form of their computers and not with their real world friends. maybe it's time to reboot and unwind and touch the universe. The Sabbath Manifesto has 10 points to help you if you do want to reboot and connect with yourself and the real world that you once knew. 1. Avoid technology. 2. Connec...