PoliticsPresident Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet on Sept. 24. Trade, shipments of fentanyl precursors and artificial intelligence are expected to be among the central topics on their agenda.
PoliticsPresident Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet on Sept. 24. Trade, shipments of fentanyl precursors and artificial intelligence are expected to be among the central topics on their agenda.
PoliticsFox News correspondent Madeleine Rivera reports that President Donald Trump is preparing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and is expected to confront him over the alliance between China and Iran.
TechThe United States and China are competing for dominance in artificial intelligence, but Reuters correspondents say they are not playing the same game. The report examines Beijing’s drive to integrate AI throughout society, along with the opaque worlds of chip access, distillation and export controls.
PoliticsUS President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet face to face again on September 24. Experts interviewed by VOA examine the summit’s main issues, including trade and tariffs, artificial intelligence, export controls and security across the Taiwan Strait.
PoliticsChinese President Xi Jinping is due to visit Washington next week. As strategic competition between the United States and China continues, trade, security, human rights and Iran may feature prominently in the leaders’ talks, prompting US lawmakers to discuss what they hope to see from the closely watched summit.
PoliticsTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to meet his Chinese counterpart, He Lifeng, ahead of a summit between President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
PoliticsEU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič will visit Beijing on 8–9 October, seeking Chinese assurances that exports to the EU will be curbed and the truce on rare-earth exports extended. Brussels is seeking a “credible” result from the talks after a call between key negotiators.
EconomyThe United States may wait until after next week’s meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump to announce new tariffs on China, people familiar with the matter say.
PoliticsOn America Reports, Fox News contributor Hugh Hewitt examined the worldwide contest for AI supremacy and political leaders’ dispute over regulation. The Trump-Xi meeting drew a warning that China cannot be trusted.
PoliticsVOA Focus highlights next week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Trump is expected to personally go to a US military base to receive Xi’s plane. Before the summit, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, while CSIS examined tariffs, the Taiwan Strait and Iran.
PoliticsUS allies in Asia are increasingly worried that President Donald Trump could be tempted to soften Washington’s support for Taiwan in exchange for an economic gain with Beijing as he prepares to host Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week.
PoliticsChina has introduced broad exit restrictions, including bans on leaving the country for people deemed to have threatened “industrial security.” Authorities can stop citizens from departing over violations involving sensitive technology and exports. Beijing says the measures protect national security as its technology rivalry with the US intensifies and both sides accuse each other of stealing AI models.
Tech2:07Ahead of the US-China summit, President Trump reiterated that the United States leads China in AI. Hudson Institute senior researcher Hsu Yu-jen said Trump may express displeasure to Xi Jinping over allegations that China uses distillation to steal America’s frontier models. The two sides may also discuss safeguards against AI runaway behavior, including automatic shutdowns when systems cross red lines. Hsu also proposed a trusted AI mechanism between the US and Taiwan.
Tech2:45A Chinese state newspaper called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s appeal to slow AI development a “Cold War playbook” aimed at China. Analysts cautioned that US threats to sanction Chinese AI companies could weaken efforts to begin bilateral talks on AI safety.
Tech50:18Washington and Beijing are in an intensifying contest for AI leadership, as debate returns over whether powerful systems should be slowed for safety. AI stocks also fall amid fears the technology could escape human control. In Okinawa, a governor backing the US military presence and Tokyo’s plan to relocate a key American base wins by a landslide.
Tech5:42Yvonne Man of Bloomberg Television and Micah Hill-Smith of Artificial Analysis assess China’s place in the AI race and the intensifying argument over how safe models should be.
WorldChinese President Xi Jinping says unification with Taiwan is inevitable, while US President Donald Trump will not say whether Washington would defend Taiwan if it were attacked. CNN’s hosts examine whether China and the US could enter a “war with no winners,” and how such a conflict could trigger a global crisis and disrupt the chip-dependent world economy.
PoliticsAhead of Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States and the upcoming Trump-Xi meeting, the Trump administration says there is no place for “hostage diplomacy.” The program also highlights 25th-anniversary 9/11 commemorations, Republican lawmakers urging Trump to stay tough on China, and speeches by Trump and JD Vance at the Republican midterm convention.
TechU.S. intelligence agencies are warning that China is attempting to extract data from American AI models, Fox News reports.
EconomyAlicia García-Herrero, an economist at the Bruegel think tank, says new EU legislation to limit the subsidies available to foreign companies investing in Europe is “fair”.
PoliticsRapporteurs in the European Parliament’s report on the proposed Industrial Accelerator Act would restrict Chinese investment in EU sectors where Beijing is dominant, going further than the European Commission’s proposal as negotiations with China intensify.
TechThe country that becomes the leading force in artificial intelligence could hold an advantage over rivals for years. The United States and China are the only two powers in the race, with access to rare earths, advanced semiconductor chips, allies and blocs such as Pax Silica and WAICO potentially determining who wins.
PoliticsPresident Donald Trump said the US will hold a formal state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping during Xi’s visit to Washington later this month. Trump made the remarks to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.
PoliticsPresident Trump said he would host a state dinner for Xi Jinping and praised Peng Liyuan as a “beauty.” The program also covered a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report, an aid team working to restore safe drinking water in a disaster area, a Pacific Islands Forum statement that did not condemn China, and Venezuela’s oil as a possible source for replenishing the U.S. strategic reserve.