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...
If your on the go and cannot sit in front of the TV but you would still want to watch the State of the Union Address the first option is to head over the White House Web site . YouTube will be airing it on it's Citizentube channel. Facebook is also going to stream the event live. If you are not in front of a computer or a TV you could the White House iPhone App. "The White House App also lets users stay up to date with the White House Blog," Cole said, and will provide on-demand video of White House events . "In the coming weeks, we?ll also launch mobile.WhiteHouse.gov , a mobile-ready version of WhiteHouse.gov that is optimized for any Internet-enabled mobile device , including many other phones," he added. Obama relied heavily on the Internet during his presidential campaign for organizing, fundraising and communicating and has created MySpace and Facebook pages and a Twitter feed since entering the White House. An original post by Sociolatte