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...
With barely hours left to go before the first match kicks off. Social Media has provided you a way to follow all the excitement even if you are not seated in front of the TV. You can be undated with schedule venues and news with widgets provided by Social Media. Google has released a gadget that can be added to your iGoogle home page which brings you all the news, match trimming and all other updates in real-time. To add the iGoogle widget please click the link below. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ - Add to iGoogle Kickoff Today! First matches: South Africa vs. Mexico - 11 Jun 4:00pm Uruguay vs. France - 11 Jun 8:30pm * All times are South Africa Time Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F Group G Group H FRA ARG ALG AUS CMR ITA BRA CHI MEX GRE ENG GER DEN NZL CIV HON RSA KOR SVN GHA JPN PAR PRK ESP URU NGA USA SRB NED SVK POR SUI FIFA.com - Latest News - Schedule To follow the world cup on Twitter we had grouped together these links found below to make you job e...