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...
Lenovo has had an announcement ahead of the Annual Consumers Electronic Show being held in Las Vegas this week. China-based PC maker Lenovo is the world's No.4 PC maker. Who have sold more than 30 million Thinkpads to date. With the addition of AMD Neo Chips they will be able to offer lower price points. Thinkpads running Intel will still be available. The Thinkpad Edge is what is being offered slated for sales from Jan 5th through to the 7th and comes with a 13" screen. Up to 7.8 hours of battery life , a dual-core CPU, Windows 7, Bluetooth and WiMAX options, integrated WWAN / GPS, WiFi, a spill-resistant keyboard, three USB ports, a 5-in-1 media card reader and an option for a red paint job. There's also a sub-3 pound ThinkPad X100e ultraportable with an 11.6-inch display, AMD processor and an only-available-overseas Arctic White color option. Then we've got the X100e , which has an 11.6" HD display, full-sized keyboard, AMD processor, and a weight of just 3...