Trump and XI Have Two More Chances This Year To Cover What They Missed at the Latest Summit

Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping are not done talking this year. They have two more chances, in November and December, to hit the tough issues they hardly covered at their Washington summit, and AI, artificial intelligence, may be top of the agenda.The White House signaled the importance of AI — Super Intelligence, as Mr. Trump calls it — in a “Fact Sheet” announcing the establishment at the Washington summit of “the U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue.” The purpose, it says, is “to exchange views on risks and benefits related to SI.”Messrs. Xi and Trump touched on AI, or SI, in Friday talks at the White House that lasted less than two hours, and they’re expected to explore the fast-growing phenomenon when they meet again in November at Shenzhen, the large Communist Chinese city just across the line from Hong Kong. The two will attend a meeting of leaders of Asian countries grouped together in APEC, standing for “Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.”Mr. Trump has said he sees little more to discuss when it comes to AI/SI, and he’s not concerned that China is catching up and may even have surpassed America in a field in which it’s difficult to know who’s ahead in what aspect. The White House Fact Sheet leaves the door open for never-ending dialogue on all levels, concluding, “The United States and China also agreed to establish a bilateral communication channel for SI incidents.”Nor will the APEC confab be the last chance this year for the two presidents to talk. They are due to meet again in December on Mr. Trump’s doorstep — at the Trump National Doral, Mr. Trump’s golf club at the Miami suburb of Doral. The occasion is a gathering of leaders of the G20, comprising 19 nations plus the European Union and the African Union. Messrs. Trump and XI may be busy talking to other world leaders, possibly including President Vladimir Putin of Russia, but they are likely to squeeze in another one-on-one meeting.The White House Fact Sheet appeared designed to counter the widespread impression that Messrs. Trump and Xi did not accomplish much of substance during the three-day visit. Rather, the word “lavish” was widely used to describe activities including Mr. Trump’s greeting of Mr. Xi planeside at Joint Base Andrews; their state dinner at the White House; tea on Friday; and a visit to the National Achieves where they marked the 250th anniversary of America’s existence as a country by viewing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.More substantively, the Fact Sheet said, the two leaders “operationalized the cornerstone government-to-government mechanisms of the U.S.-China Board of Trade and the U.S.-China Board of Investment,” putting into effect a process agreed upon at their previous summit at Beijing in May. The inference was they had at least discussed trade and tariffs, which America and China, in talks before the summit, agreed to freeze at the current level at least until January 10.Nor did they overlook issues of war and peace. “The two leaders discussed on-going global concerns, including Russia, North Korea, and Iran,” according to the Fact Sheet. “They agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and that no country or institution can be allowed to impose tolls on international waterways.”They obviously did not agree on China reducing its support for Iran, its main source of oil, but they sought to find an affinity in history. “The two leaders recalled that the United States and China were allies in World War II and fought side by side to win the war,” the Fact Sheet said.True enough — except that America’s alliance was with the fiercely anti-communist Chinese Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, whom Mao Zedong’s Red Army defeated in 1949.

Trump and XI Have Two More Chances This Year To Cover What They Missed at the Latest Summit

Trump and XI Have Two More Chances This Year To Cover What They Missed at the Latest Summit

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