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...
Will Twitter's awful decision cost them. Everyone who looks at the worldwide trends every day on Twitter has to know the name of Justin Bieber. The 16 year old entertainer is always Trending on Twitter. Easter morning saw something different on the Twitter landscape. Bieber was not on the trending topics, apparently being taken down by Twitter, because a few Twitter business people did not like it. Beliebers were not to be taken down that easily though. "Beliebers" was the new trending topic a combo of Bieber and those who believe in him. So why has Twitter started playing big bully. Does the site really have to bow to pressure. Twitter is about what people are talking about right now and Teens are talking about their favorite Idol Justine. Will Bieber ever be back on the trending topics again. It will happen but his name for now has been blacklisted by Twitter. Wrong decision since it he should not be blamed for something he did not even start. Twitter trending top...