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 FT did release news regarding the ban on windows operating machines within their premises world wide. Google have not officially said anything about it and that has not stopped the guys over at Redmond from posting a blog that quiet directly responds to the ban. We had cowered this story yesterday. As reported by the Financial Times Google employees said Google had taken this strong step especially after the China Hack thing which was called project Project Aurora. The hackers had targeted Gmail accounts and had made it in. Google said this happened because of windows security flaws. There is now a lot of debate going on over the internet as to the actually success of the operation on whether it was a software flaw or actually human flaws. Since the attackers knew their victims quiet well. Either ways Google will now no more have windows operated systems within their company. Brandon LeBlanc has responded to this on the Windows Team Blog. He says even Hackers will admit that Micr...