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...
The Twitter and Facebook tabs can be found in the My Community channel on the Xbox live's dashboard. "With the Facebook add-on, Xbox Live gamers can sync their gamertags with their social-networking accounts, as well as share photos and in-game screenshots. Friend updates will also be viewable through the Xbox Live dashboard" When Microsoft added social networking functionality to all Gold-Level subscribers except those under the age of 18. Today Microsoft announced that those parental controls have gone in all other countries except the US. The US launch is scheduled for Dec 15th The parental controls will now allow parents to approve children access between the ages 13 - 18 "The update went live today in the EU and everywhere except for the United States where it will go live on the 15th. Minors must use the auto log in option for each app, or risk being prompted to ask for parental permission each time they want to use the apps." An original post by Sociol...