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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

11 Top Celebs to Follow - trending now on Twitter

11 Top Celebs to Follow - trending now on the top of Twitter worldwide trends. You might be wondering how this trend came to be. The answer is very simple, this is a repeat of what happened yesterday . Mashable the popular social media blog had a post out '10 Facebook tips for power users', this got a lot of Tweets on Twitter but users just changed it to what they think are the top 10 Facebook tips to keep in kind. Today there is another post out by Amy-Mae Elliott from Mashable and the title of the article is 11 Top Celebs to Follow on Viddy. This title has been taken by users on Twitter and they have converted it to their own version. The Twitter version is '11 top Celebs to Follow' and users are having fun with the title. Including offering up some of their favouriute Twitter celebrities that they think should be followed on Twitter.  This being Twitter you can only expect that many of the users are saying that the celebs to be followed are Justin Bieber and Lady Ga...