The four issues our experts are watching ahead of this week’s Trump-Xi summit
Trump and Xi will meet on September 24 amid a trade truce, with an apparent understanding that new US tariffs will not exceed an effective rate of 30 percent. US and Chinese officials discussed AI over the weekend, agreeing to continue dialogue, and the US proposed an AI safety notification mechanism for the summit. The article also states that Washington still lacks a coherent strategy for competing with Beijing.
Why it matters: This matters for geoeconomics because the summit's outcomes will shape US-China economic competition and the governance of critical technologies like AI.