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...
The Sydney Morning Herald reported a story that show the perils of online social networking. This happened in the US. A teen angry with his sister for reporting his stashing away of liquor in his bedroom. Rummaged through her bedroom and found her "hook-up list" and what does he do with it. Promptly publishes it on Facebook. Talk about revenge. The posting went viral which should not come as a surprise. His sister Jumped on his profile and asked him to take it down using expletives of course. The brother is unrepentant and keep it on. The list was published on many websites and can be found on Geekology An original post by Sociolatte