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Trump, Xi hold AI talks

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Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet at the White House in Washington on Sept. 24 amid rising warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence.

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"Next week, a diminished, retreating President Trump will meet President Xi of China for a scheduled summit that could prove pivotal to the demise of American power and the emboldening of an adversary poised to take Taiwan."

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Bargaining Away Taiwan: The High Cost of Trump’s Photo-Op Foreign Policy
Ahead of the September 24 summit, Trump’s willingness to sell out our longstanding allies has reinforced China’s belief that America is a declining superpower.
open.substack.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation.
One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵
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China: “Thank Trump”
The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM

Reposted by Albert Weale

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My Trade Secrets today. As the forthcoming summit will show, the Xi-Trump relationship isn’t “transactional”. Transactions require trust and compliance.

It’s a balance of terror between two presidents battling hard behind the scenes for supply chain and technology dominance.
The main Trump-Xi summit achievement will be it happening at all
The US and China are in a stand-off rather than a state of agreement
as.ft.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:25 AM