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...
Apple has a new iPad out again, just 6 months after the iPad 3 made an appearance comes the all new iPad 4. One observer on Twitter, tweeting that Apple makes iPads faster than people make babies. The iPad 4 comes with an A6X chip which is twice as fast as the previous A5X chip. So graphic performance enhancement is something to be expected. it also comes with 10 hour battery backup. It also has an updated 720p Facetime camera. The iPad 4 has a release date set in October 2012. Pre-oders start on Oct 26th -- Also, Apple stores will be open form 8 a.m to start taking orders on Nov 2. Prices in the US will look like this 16GB Wi-Fi only, $499,16GB LTE, $629,32GB Wi-Fi only, $599,32GB LTE, $729,64GB Wi-Fi only, $699, 64GB LTE, $829.