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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 clear your browser cache

What is cache? Cache, pronounced cash, is a temporary storage place inside your computer.  Your cache stores the files that are downloaded when you visit sites on the internet. That way, when you return to a site at a later time, the system won't have to reload all of the information. Caching makes the site load into your browser more quickly. Clearing your cache  will make your system run faster and smoother. Internet pages will load faster.  For Internet Explorer: 1. Launch Internet Explorer. 2. Select  Tools  >  Internet Options. 3. Click the  Delete  button in the Browsing History section. 4. Click on  Delete. 5. Close Internet Explorer and re-launch. For Firefox: 1. Launch Firefox. 2. Select  Tools  >  Clear Recent History. 3. In the Clear Recent History pop-up, select "everything" from the "time range to clear" menu. 4. Click on  Clear Now. 5. Close Firefox and re-launch. For Google Chrome: 1. Click on the  Tools  menu (the wrench in the upper-right ...