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...
Since recovering from it's last bit of downtime a few days ago. Twitter says it is not fixing the problem of random tweets popping up all over the place. Since users compained about the retweet fature there are not random tweets that look like retweets popping up in users time-lines that are posted by people they do not follow. Twitter has said that there are working on a fix on their status page . On their know issues page they have announced that they are aware of tweets from strangers in users Timelines and are working to fix the problem. If this is a problem you face and are wondering what to do. Here's what Twitter says on their page: What to do: We would greatly appreciate information about your situation if you are affected by this issue. Please include the following information in the comments section below: Your username (Please note that usernames do not contain spaces) The username of the stranger in your Home timeline A link to the tweet from the stranger Bonus ...