So where are we on  China tariffs ? Trump has enacted new blanket tariffs of around 20% on top of existing 10% duties that went into place during Trump's first term. China has responded with up to 15% duties on US farm goods such as chicken and pork, which went into effect Monday, March 10. Said Trump yesterday:   Xi "and top people underneath him" will come to the U.S. in the "not too  distant future," Trump said. He did not provide more details about the potential meeting, including when it may be held and his hopes for a meeting with Xi.  He  last visited the U.S. in 2023, when the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) held a summit in San Francisco. What about TikTok?  Here is  what I said about TikTok in 2021 : TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service started in 2017 by Chinese company ByteDance.  The video performance tends to be short, from 15 seconds to three minutes.  After you watch this supposedly   top ten ...

Yesterday, Rubik's Cube being 50 years old inspired me to start today with the  Caesar Salad  being a century old.  More specifically, July 4 was not only Independence Day, but also the birthday of this dish. Invented in Tijuana. But this is an Italian salad, invented by Caesar Cardini.  Tijuana then was a bustling international city with bullfights, mobsters, movie stars and the like. The music being blared might have been Al Jolson's  California Here I Come . That day, the restaurant was overwhelmed by holiday travelers, so he and his brother just tossed some olive oil, egg and parmesan over Romaine lettuce.  Perhaps an anchovy. The Caesar demands innovation, and people who later prepared it also added some Worcestershire, or Tabasco or lemon juice, and perhaps bacon, kimchi and anything an adventurous cook might choose. Thus, the endurance of the Caesar Salad. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, invokes fear, utility, the future and a wide variety of emotion...