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...
Simon Fuller create of American Idol has spoken about his new reality project ' If I can dream ". The show is going to a first of a kind. The show will debut in early 2010 and will feature five participants. A musician, an actor, two actresses and a model.Who will be sharing a Hollywood Hills house as they try to beak into the entertainment industry. Viewers from around the world will be able to watch the participants lice 24/7 on the shows website. While Hulu will steam a weekly recap episode at the end of each week. Viewers can interact with the participants in real-time using Twitter, Myspace or Facebook. If a participant drops out for any reason another audition will be conducted via Myspace. This will be the first major production aimed at social media. This highlights the growing importance of social media. Shows that a big time were only made for TV. Now web based reality show maybe the thing of the future. Am sure it's not going to cost as much as producing somethi...