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...
Found this really popular video on YouTube 'Twitter in plain English'. It is simple and plain just like Twitter and easy to follow. There are a huge number of people joining Twitter everyday and wondering how to get started. I think this video is useful and gives a few hints for freshers and newbies. Of course it does not get too deep into various ways Twitter power users use he service. But it is good if your wondering how and where to start. For those who know all this the video still makes an interesting listen. Highly recommended. An original post by Sociolatte