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...
comScore has just released it's finding on November 2009 traffic and reports that facebook has surpassed the 100 million unique visitors mark in the US alone. making it the fourth largest internet site. Below we have attached the image from comScore graph depicting this trend. Facebook over the last year has more than doubled it's US audience. It would be interesting to note what changes their newly launched privacy policy will have on their ratings. Also the new integrating with Twitter in which user updates from Facebook will be published on Twitter An original post by Sociolatte