{"id":144731,"date":"2026-08-19T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/144731\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:37:10","slug":"exclusive-as-xis-us-visit-approaches-basic-details-of-planned-ai-talks-remain-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/144731\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | As Xi\u2019s US visit approaches, basic details of planned AI talks remain uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s planned <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/series\/3364401\/xis-2026-trip-us?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit to the United States<\/a> just weeks away, Washington and Beijing are still struggling to arrange a hoped-for dialogue on artificial intelligence, with the venue, participants and scope of the talks yet to be settled.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two sources familiar with the discussions said Washington had yet to decide which part of the US government should take the lead. The two sides had also not agreed on whether technical experts and private-sector representatives should be included, among other questions.<\/p>\n<p>While Treasury Secretary <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/scott-bessent?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scott Bessent<\/a> has led discussions around the broader US-China economic relationship, one person familiar with the matter added that AI policy cut across the White House, intelligence agencies, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the departments of state, commerce and defence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A substantive dialogue would also require experts from AI laboratories, rather than simply senior diplomats, to take part, the person said.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether companies in the AI industry \u2013 such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia on the US side, or China\u2019s <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/deepseek?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeepSeek<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/alibaba?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alibaba<\/a> and Baidu \u2013 will formally attend or only play a role on the margins.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s planned visit to the United States just weeks away, Washington and Beijing are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,221,2477,53,25,2817,2699,387,71290,6010,71289,7543,56003,58,157,25559],"class_list":["post-144731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-policy","tag-alibaba","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-baidu","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","tag-deepseek","tag-duke-kunshan-university","tag-google-deepmind","tag-jacob-helberg","tag-nvidia","tag-openai","tag-pax-silica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}