{"id":101331,"date":"2025-05-14T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101331\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:19:07","slug":"china-invites-uk-to-its-ai-summit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101331\/","title":{"rendered":"China invites UK to its AI summit \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

British government reps took part in a China-hosted AI “capacity building” workshop<\/a> in Beijing this week, Zheng said. And he pointed to the delegation China sent to Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s AI Safety Summit in 2023 as evidence of how the two countries are collaborating already on the emerging tech.<\/p>\n

But if London and Beijing are to go further on the hot-button issue it\u2019s \u201cvery important to get rid of the political disruptions and interventions,\u201d Ambassador Zheng said. \u201cSome in the U.K. still view China through an outdated lens. They hold on to their ideological biases and overstretch the concept of national security.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

China and Britain, he said, should also work together to \u201cface up to\u201d the challenges posed by \u201ctrade bullying\u201d and U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war. <\/p>\n

The start of this week saw Beijing and Washington tone down economic tensions after Trump slapped 145 percent tariffs on Chinese goods imports last month, with China responding in kind.<\/p>\n

Both sides announced Monday they will cut tariffs<\/a>. The Trump administration slashed theirs to 30 percent, while the Chinese side dropped their measures from 125 percent to 10 percent, for 90 days to allow for further negotiations.<\/p>\n

This week, Ambassador Zheng criticized Starmer\u2019s trade pact with Trump struck a week ago<\/a>, arguing it could force Chinese firms out of British supply chains. Nations like Britain should \u201csay no to any arrangement that would obstruct international exchanges and collaboration,\u201d the Chinese ambassador said Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must uphold true multilateralism. We must firmly oppose decoupling or the severing of the global industrial supply chain or such practices of the small yard, high fence,\u201d Zheng said.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternational sci-tech cooperation faces unprecedented challenges,\u201d Beijing\u2019s ambassador to London said. When it comes to AI and other issues both nations should \u201ccontinue to collaborate closely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British government reps took part in a China-hosted AI “capacity building” workshop in Beijing this week, Zheng said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,28,1395,6215,32,393,3976,4884,475,807,809,1144,5112,5549,712,811,6648,479,1201,16,15,49,1764,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-101331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-cooperation","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-governance","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-imports","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-negotiations","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-rishi-sunak","22":"tag-safety","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-security","25":"tag-supply-chains","26":"tag-tariffs","27":"tag-trade","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-wales","32":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}