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...
YouTube has launched an Adblitz challe that will air all those Ads that companies spend millions on to air during the Super Bowl. YouTube Ad Blitz 2010 It's that time of year. Watch the game. See the commercials. Find the commercials online. Or maybe you skipped the first 2 and are just going straight online to watch the ads. Well view freely, because we have the 2010 commercials in our annual YouTube Ad Blitz contest. Watch the commercials here the minute they air on Feb 7th. When the game ends, we'll let you vote for your favorite 2010 commercial until Feb 14th. The winning ad will receive ultimate video glory with YouTube homepage recognition. The best ad will be aired on the 14th on the YouTube homepage. People are already excited about this new channel as one member put it. Awesome. I think this is brilliant. I love the commercials. They are so cool. Usually I don't like commercials, but on the day when they spend millions on them, I know they will be funny. I can...