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...
Yes it's out Yahoo has released it's list of top searches for the year 2009. They have said that the top search has been : Michael Jackson" followed by "twilight". Twitter apparently was not among the top most searched key words. Am wondering why is that so important. The reason being that when people want twitter they now go directly to twitter. It is no more a phase that needs to be searched through search engines. You want twitter you go to twitter and join the fun. Bing Top Searches Michael Jackson Twilight WWE Megan Fox Britney Spears Naruto American Idol Kim Kardashian NASCAR Runescape Yahoo Top Searches Facebook Twitter Hulu Bing iPhone LinkedIn Dollar Stores Palm Pre Rosetta Stone Kindle So this is an indicator of what our current generation is most interested in. An original post by Sociolatte