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 new movie has now been released and has pulled in 9 million on it's first day. Considering that the movie is about the world's largest social network and it's founder, there has been a lot of interest and speculation. It was only expected that the movie would generate a lot of buzz and interest and has started to do well at the box office. even though there are no karate kicks and hot action but a movie about nerds trying to sue each other for big money with a lot of betrayal and a whole lot of dialogs and typing. The social network is getting a lot eye balls and footfalls. Check out the original site created for the movie here . An original post by Sociolatte