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...
Using 140 characters at a time Rick Moody kicks of his new tale. The idea was first suggested to him by an innovative new magazine called " Electric Literature". So far there have been 174 tweets from the author who will be tweeting every 10 minutes with a break at night. What role twitter will play in contemporary literature is left to be seen. There seems to be some direction with authors now able to create stories with 140 letter characters at a time. He is tweeting from the "Electric Literature" twitter homepage and can be found here . I am sure this would be good for short story writers. Maybe more authors would do the same thing and bring a cultural revolution to our generation. Will people really want to read a story on twitter? An original post by Sociolatte