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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

How to get your old add-ons work with Firefox 4

With the recently released beta version of  Firefox 4 . The browser now sports a whole new look. The add-ons section has been completely revamped and menu bars hidden. With the result, you now have more screen space to browse your favorite websites. Plus you now have the option to permanently “pin” frequently used web apps. Though still in it's beta release there seems to be one problem all pre-existing favourite add-ons may not work with Firefox 4 since they were written for Firefox 3.x releases. Using Old Add-ons with Firefox 4 Here are some ways by which you can get your old add-ons work with Firefox 4 even if they are listed as incompatible on the Mozilla site. Option #1 . Mozilla earlier created the  Compatibility Reporter  add-on for its users to test and report the compatibility of add-ons with various Firefox releases. The interesting part about this add-on is that it will automatically configure your Firefox to install and use add-ons that are otherwise incompatible with y...