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...
You might have often wondered how to find out what the exact time is and how to set my computer's clock to the right time. There are many webapps that allow you to check what the exact time at your location currently is. Webapp Time.is allows you to see what the correct time is right now in your part of the world and you can use it to set your PC's time to be most accurate. Once you login to the app you get to see what the time is and if you computer is a few seconds off there should be no need to change it. Because Time.is uses something called the Atomic Clock which is the most accurate time in the world. If you do use the app you can also customize it to your timezone and also compare time-zones across the globe. If fact the makers of the app say you can check the time across 7 million locations worldwide. If you're in the US Time.is automatically syncs to daylight savings time even if you computer clock doesn't. The app even goes a little further to give you suns...