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China’s President Xi Jinping arrived yesterday for a 

 to the US. It’s his first time here since 2015, and he and President Trump will have a three-day huddle that concludes tomorrow and could have ramifications for artificial intelligence, trade, and the war in Iran.

 of meeting Xi when his plane landed at Joint Base Andrews in Washington, DC, yesterday rather than at the White House, not unlike when people met their loved ones at the airport gate during that montage in 

 at a state dinner for Xi, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Tesla’s Elon Musk.

One major announcement has already been made:

 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News yesterday after Xi arrived that a trade 

 between the US and China that ended steep duties on Chinese goods by the US and Beijing’s tight restrictions on rare earth exports had been extended to Jan. 10. 

The big items on the agenda for the first meeting between Trump and Xi since the former went to Beijing in May include:

 Less than two weeks after a warning about AI growing too quickly from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the 

 will be atop the Trump/Xi agenda. Both the US and China are racing to assert dominance in the tech.

 partner. Some US lawmakers have implored Trump to push Xi into pressuring Iran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz. However, it’s 

 that China will exert influence on Iran.

. It’s an awkward topic for the US, which sold Taiwan $11 billion in arms in December and has another $14 billion arms purchase that’s been on hold for months, per Reuters. Trump said after May talks with Xi that the latter deal was “a very good negotiating chip.”

 from the summit, unless you count the memes Musk will create on his way home from the dinner tonight.

Xi is in the US for talks with Trump

China's president will spend three days in DC for high-stakes talks about AI, tariffs, and Iran

There’s a lot to talk about

Dave Lozo