Trump, Xi Set 3-Day Washington Talks as 125-Person Dinner Caps Trade and AI Agenda
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 21
Trump, Xi Set 3-Day Washington Talks as 125-Person Dinner Caps Trade and AI Agenda
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 21
Summary
Three days of Washington events begin Wednesday as Trump and Xi prepare to discuss trade, AI and broader geopolitical disputes, with officials signaling no pre-negotiated deals and only modest chances of concrete breakthroughs.
Trade expectations center on extending the current tariff truce and possibly extracting limited concessions after Trump held off on new tariff moves.
AI talks are likely to focus less on slowing frontier-model development than on communication, including a possible bilateral notification mechanism that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said preliminary discussions had explored.
About 125 guests are expected at a White House state dinner, with CEOs including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Sam Altman set to attend as Trump stages a summit analysts describe as heavy on symbolism.
The agenda also reaches Taiwan, rare-earth export curbs, the Iran war and yuan tensions, underscoring what one analyst called a "managed stalemate" between the world’s two largest economies.