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...
Tabeo tablet for Kids In the middle of the tablet wars comes a new one with a major difference. A tablet that is aimed at kids - a nice Toys R Us hopes to carve for itself. The tablet also comes with 50 pre-loaded games, books and educational apps, and is now available for pre-order. The gadget will be go on sale on Sept 21, 2012. Don't get the wrong idea thinking that this is for kids and might come with limited capability. This is not so and although the Tabeo does have a lot of parental controls, it does have all functionality normally associated with a tablet like the iPad or Amazon Kindle fire. Tabeo Specs: It has a 7' screen Front facing camera HDMI output for kids to showoff all their photos and videos on their TV 1.0 Ghz for faster gaming 6,000 free apps available at the Tabeo store WIFI and full internet support including flash 4 GB Storage and a micro SDHC card slot for expansion Cost: $150 The product will not have store pick-up however and will be shipped to your ...