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...
Wondering what the rumor mill of the internet has been churning out. Well let's see, maybe a new netbook from Google. Yeah if that is what we are being led to believe then Google will launch it's new netbook as early as 2010. Surprising because we already know about Google's phone called Nexus One. The Google branded chrome OS netbook can be a special surprise for many people and let's see if Google get 's it right. According to Michale Arrington of TechCrunch who says that according to multiple sources Google has been talking to at least one manufacturer about building a netbook directly for Google. And these netbooks will be mobile enabled. It is not known whether Google will be going with the Atom Processor the current leader in netbook's or will they be trying an ARM CPU with Nvidea Tegra graphics chip. If this is all true than by next Christmas you will be getting a Google powered chrome OS notebook. With super high-performance. If it is running ARM (HD fl...