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...
After Twitter bought "Tweetie" last month. They have been quick to upgrade it and now continue it's free distribution on the iTunes store simply titled Twitter. Twitter for iPhone is being listed as 3.0 and comes with upgrades so if you want to use the official Twitter App on your iPhone and tweet to your hearts content here goes. It's actually high time that Twitter came with some official Apps. There are so many third party Apps for Twitter which actually leads to confusion. What's New in Version 3.0 Tweetie is now Twitter! We didn’t just do a name change, we’ve added a bunch of new stuff. Search has been reorganized, now you can search all tweets and find users in the same spot, view Top Tweets and Browse Suggested users. Search results now include Top Tweets, try it with Trends...winner combo! You can now use Twitter without an account! Search, Browse uses, view trends and top tweets. Sign-up is now availabile within the application as well, complete with Sug...