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...
On Twitter there are two ways you can communicate with people. 1. Direct Message or DM 2. @Reply Whats the difference between the two. You can direct message someone on Twitter only if both of you are connected. So if both of you follow each other, you can send the other person a direct message. Many people choose to follow famous people like celebrities or companies or some famous news guy. when you follow someone who has a large Twitter following and that someone does not know you. He or She might not follow you back and therefore you will not be able to send them a DM. You on the other hand still want to leave that person a message. That is where the @relies come into the picture. If you would like to leave someone a message all you need to do is type the "@" symbol followed by the person's username and type your message. This message does not get delivered into the person's inbox but get's posted to the live Twitter feed. When that person checks his "@use...