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US-China AI Race to Take Center Stage at Trump-Xi Meeting
16 minutes Posted Sep 22, 2026 at 8:03 pm.
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As Chinese President Xi Jinping makes his first visit to Washington in over a decade, trade and the AI race will likely dominate talks with Donald Trump.

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, host K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg’s John Liu unpack what each leader hopes to gain and why they may have no choice but to cooperate on AI safety.

Read more: The Tough AI Questions Looming Over the Trump-Xi Summit

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Hosted by K. Oanh Ha; Produced by Yang Yang and Naomi Ng; Edited by Crispina Robert and Paddy Hirsch Engineering by Alex Sugiura

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