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...
Google in a Tweet today said they are mark 5 years of Google blogging and nearly 1 year of Tweeting. Their blog post on the same dedicates an entire paragraph to their Twitter experience and commitment to the same. Since jumping into Twitterverse in Fed of 2009 Google now has more than a 1,000 posts with 2,028,948 followers as of this time of writing. They also said the 75 other Google entities have gotten into the Twitter Act. They further said that Twitter was their biggest non-Google refer to their blog in 2009. We are all proud that Twitter has grown and proven to the world that micro-blogging and connecting people on a single platform has united the world in a way never know before and opened doors to people great and small and companies great and small. Cheers to a new decade of Twittering To follow Google on Twitter @google The Following has been taken from their blog What captured your attention this year? Here are the top 10 posts of 2009, by unique pageviews: Introducing the...