Xi vs Trump: Will They Slow the AI Race — or Speed It Up?

This week, the leaders of the world’s two largest economies meet in Washington. President Xi Jinping and President Trump sit down for official talks on September 24. No one is predicting a historic deal. What many are watching is whether artificial intelligence makes it onto the table — and what, if anything, the two sides can actually agree on. China and the United States are racing to build the most capable AI systems on earth. Some of the people creating those systems say the speed is unsafe. Others warn of loss of control, or even an existential threat. Trump has called that talk a hoax and put it simply: whoever wins AI, wins. At the same time, U.S. officials have floated an AI hotline with China — a way to notify each other if something goes wrong at a national-security level. In this episode of Reports on China, Andy Boreham speaks with Dr. Warwick Powell of the Queensland University of Technology. They look past the slogans: what an AI emergency dialogue might cover, why calls to slow development ring hollow in a zero-sum race, how China is answering U.S. chip bans with Huawei, DeepSeek, and cheap power, and why the two countries think about AI so differently. Powell also asks the blunt question: is the real danger rogue machines — or humans handing critical decisions to them? Watch for a clear-eyed look at the AI contest now landing in Washington. #Xi #trump #summit