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...
FarmVille has released the new version of the older FarmVille iPhone App. Version 1.2 now comes with the following fixes. This update has fixes for the following issues: - Optimizations to allow large farms to load better - Fixes for users having issues loading their farm - Performance improvements for older devices - Support for multitasking (for iOS 4.0 users) - Better organized Gift area - Bug fixing It is also iOS 4 tested. Check out the FarmVille v1.2 App on iTunes now . An original post by Sociolatte