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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

How to add the Twitter Tweet button to your blog or website

So here is how it works. Twitter has launched the new Tweet Button. This can be easily placed on websites and blogs in three easy steps. Users who want to share content can now use the tweet button and this is how it works. When you find content you link and you see the new Tweet button all you need to do is click the tweet button. If you have already logged in to Twitter. Twitter will add a link and  @mention an account the website specifies ahead of time. After that you can add your message and hit tweet. Another great feature of the tweet button is the ability to follow specific account after the tweet is sent. These accounts have already been chosen by the website you found the tweet button on. This is done by the website to suggest users to follow. After you close the overlay window you can continue viewing the exact same site you fond the tweet button on. You will see the number of times a link has been shared enabling you to see how popular the content it.  A nice thing Twitter ...