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...
This is for website and blog owners who might have been affected by Google's algorithm update know as 'Panda'. When Panda was released Google had said that 35% of search results would be affected. Which means that website and blog owners who were enjoying a lot of traffic coming from Google could now be affected in terms of less traffic coming from the search engine. Most sites and blogs depend on Google to bring visitors to their sites and with Google's latest search engine update known as panda or Farmer some or many sites could have been affected. With this update Google has been trying to bring better quality content to it's users and therefore trying to weed out bad quality content. One of the issues the updated tries to address is the problem of 'Scrapes'. Now if you own a blog or site you will know Scrapers are other websites that scrape your site and RSS feed for fresh content and then display it as their own. This will effect your quality content if...