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's iTunes has embraced Facebook now. With the launch of their official Twitter accounts of which I have written in the previous post. iTunes Facebook page is live and vibrant. The page features content and information about the iTunes store and available downloads in the US. Welcome to the official iTunes Facebook page. Become a fan and share this page with your friends. The content and offers on this iTunes fan page are focused on the U.S. iTunes Store. The page also has featured content and special offers. The fan page already has 3,219,625 fans This is what they have to say on their info page. Website: http://www.apple.com/itunes Company Overview: iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video, and syncs it all to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it’s a store where you can find more to entertain you, any time of the day. Visit the iTunes Store to browse over 10 million songs. You can also rent or buy HD movies, get HD episode...