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Trump-Xi summit: Pomp and pageantry, but few concrete breakthroughs

On AI, Trump and Xi signalled differing approaches, with Xi stressing that the technology should remain under human control.

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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington
00:05in a summit aimed at managing tensions between the world's two largest economies.
00:10Trump greeted Xi on the runway, offered him a tour of the presidential helicopter
00:14and presented him with a bald eagle statue.
00:18But behind the ceremony, analysts say the meeting produced few substantive breakthroughs.
00:23The two sides did extend their fragile trade truce by two months,
00:27offering some temporary stability after years of tariff tensions.
00:31Quite honestly, I think President Trump's greatest interest in having this meeting
00:36is simply to sort of demonstrate that he can, you know, have high-level symmetry
00:43with countries that he obviously respects or believes to be, you know, near co-equals.
00:52In other words, like many of these other summits that President Trump has held
00:59with other major world leaders, it's mostly about spectacle.
01:03There's been very little, very little in the way of prior planning
01:10or, you know, preparation for any of the sort of typical outcomes you might expect.
01:17But major disputes remain, including over Taiwan, artificial intelligence
01:21and China's role in the conflict involving Iran.
01:24On AI, Trump and Xi signaled differing approaches,
01:29which Xi is stressing that the technology should remain under human control.
01:34There's been a number of radical changes over 2011.
01:35There's been an impact on policy through the past five,
01:35a few days after I was on AI and on AI both sides of the pandemic
01:36A few days before I had Yasmin knew a

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