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...
Twitter as you know is a very public thing. If on the other hand you find it a little weird to have strangers following you and reading your tweets. You can create a protected account. To protect your account. 1. Login to Twitter 2. Click on Settings 3. Scroll down and check the box besides "Protect my updates" 4. Save Changes What happens once I protect my updates. 1. Your Tweets do not appear on the Twitter public timeline 2. Your Tweets are not indexed by search engines. 3. Your Name still appears on Twitter's people search. You will receive a follow request each time someone wants to follow you. Only by allowing someone to follow you will they be able to see your Tweets. 4. When you follow someone you can see their tweets on your public Timeline but they will not be able to see your Tweets. 5. @relies sent to people following you will not be seen 6. If you already have a public twitter account but want to protect it. All updates after that will not be seen. Your profi...