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 in In Vogue. The italian magazine has dedicated it's december cower to TwitPics of some of the world's most famous models, including Gisele Bundchen, Christy Turlington, and Natalia Vodianova . "Twitter has been good to models. Tyra Banks has had America's Next Top Model for years, and at last the rest have a medium to show the world that they, too, can take pictures ." In the collage models are taking photos of themselves via popular twitter photo sharing App TwitPic. With the layout an ode to Twitter. The fashion industry has been acknowledging the popularity and chicness of Technology Websites. Models have also made them their home with easy access to fans and updates in real-time. Twitter for one has become fashionable. An original post by Sociolatte