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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

How To Send PDFs to iTunes for iBooks Syncing

This post will explain how to send your PDF docs to iTunes to sync them with your iBooks. It will also allow you to open any PDF document on the web and read it with iBooks. With the method listed below you can send any Doc or even web page to iTunes and read it with iBooks. How to send PDFs to iTunes for iBooks Syncing. 1. Open iBooks 2. Click on the iTunes icon and select " Make Alias" 3. Drag your newly created Alias and drop it in your home folder. 4. Your Home Folder ==> Library ==> PDF Services (This will ensure that iTunes becomes an option whenever your click on a PDF icon or a print dialog) Now when you click print under PDF it's going to ask "iTunes Alias" You can rename your PDF alias to "Send PDF to iTunes" Now whenever you have a web page or a document open that you'd like to read in iTunes Click on File ==> Print ==> Click on the PDF button in the lower left and choose your menu items from iTunes. The document will be save...