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...
The feature is now slowely rolling across the network. My account already has it and I have also begun to use it. If you would want to know what a retweet is. For those who are new to twitter. It is a simple function where you can retweet a friends message to all your contacts. You find a cool quote and would like to share it acoss your network Simply retweet it. Right now the feature is only available on twitter.com. But should come to the favourite twitter client soon. Curently when you click on the retweet button you are asked "retweet to your followers?". If you click the X button next to it. The option closes. Retweets works via sms too Will keep this topic undated An original post by Sociolatte