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...
Kim Kardashian is the highest-paid celebrity Twitter user in the world, according to a recent survey. The reality TV star is believed to earn around $10,000 (£6,250) per post on the micro-blogging service. Kardashian was named top of a poll compiled by Ad.ly, an online service that allows celebrities and public figures the chance to "monetise" their tweets. The 29-year-old socialite arranges endorsement deals through the company, which she then posts on to her 2.7 million followers. She told Us Weekly : "I tweet about products, places, foods and fashion that I love." Other celebrities currently using the online marketing service include Soulja Boy and Audrina Patridge. Found on NowPublic It has been revealed that Kim Kardashian gets paid $10,000 a tweet by Twitter advertisers , who use her account to promote their products to her over two million followers. Many are now asking if she is worth it. On Kim Kardashian's Twitter account, in tweets such as the on...