AI fight shadows final preparations for Xi Jinping’s White House visit

Chinese side is said to view US requests as limiting both harmful outcomes from AI and Beijing’s ability to develop its own capabilities

Washington and Beijing are discussing the possibility of folding a long-awaited AI dialogue into a broader economic meeting in the days before Xi meets US President Donald Trump, according to several people familiar with the arrangements.

Sources now say Bessent is expected to handle the two issues in one meeting. Bessent is the American lead on both the AI talks with Beijing and the economic talks. The sources said that holding a second high-level meeting so close to the summit was becoming difficult to arrange.