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...
Sick of Social Networking sites? would you like to announce your death with a complete memorial page. Seppukoo is the way to go. The site announces. "Impress your friends disconnect yourself. Join the world wide suicide network". And there you have it. If you feel you have had enough and would like to leave. Why not leave in style. A message gets sent to all your friends announcing your death and a memorial page appears. The site also goes on to say that "Thank Gog, Facebook is merciful, if you ever want to reconnect you simply need to login to your account and your back. And hey there is also a score card. To receive more points " Every friend of your network who'll get seppukoo will increase your score" Ha you want to leave the Social Scene and they try to kill you in a social way following all the rules of social networking. Am sure there are going to be a large number of people who do it just for the fun of it. After all to reactivate your account on...