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 Retweet feature has arrived to Facebook. The feature currently works on links posted by your friends. You cannot share their status updates or photos. If you friend shares a link you can then click the share button found below their link and a "Via friends Name" pops up. If you do not want to share your friends name you can further remove the "via" and just share. The Retweet does not work exactly like Twitter in that you can share without your friends name. So you can now share links posted by your friends and choose whether you include their name or not. You can also choose before posting whether you would like your friends to use the 'Via' option. Facebook's Twitterfication gets deeper. An original post by Sociolatte