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...
With Valentine's day round the corner Microsoft have released two new themes. Roses Theme and Animal Affection theme for Windows 7. These roses theme features a set of 10 wallpapers of roses, the flower associated with love. Download this theme to get you into the Feb 14th mood. Roses have been sung about, have had poems written about them, are used extensively on Feb 14th and bring with them a smile on people's faces. This free Windows theme has 10 high-definition wallpapers for those who might like to have roses on their desktops. Animal Affection theme has 14 high-resolution wallpapers with photos of Animals being affectionate to one another, usually animals of the same species. These are two themes featured for Valentine's Day for sure. A Windows them when downloaded with feature beautiful wallpapers on your desktop each time you startup. They are also free to download from Microsoft - Note: Windows 7 themes can only be used in Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, En...