Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in the U.S. for a high-stakes summit with Donald Trump covering AI, tariffs, rare earth minerals and fentanyl.

Xi pitches AI Vision at BRICS summit as China duels with U.S. Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to turn the annual BRICS summit into another platform for championing Beijing's vision for artificial intelligence, as it vies for global influence over the technology with the U.S. China will lead the creation of what Xi called a BRICS "community" for open-source AI. Speaking on Sunday in New Delhi, he said the initiative will "support the cooperation in developing and applying large language models," as well as holding AI seminars and training courses for members of the club of major emerging economies. A day earlier, Xi welcomed BRICS nations to join a new group of nearly 30 countries set up by Beijing and called the World AI Cooperation Organization. BRICS must "strengthen cooperation in the field of AI, encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing," he said.

China's AI ascendance gives Xi a stage and a security dilemma The rise of China's AI models is handing President Xi Jinping new bragging rights and a stronger claim to shaping the technology's global rules. The rise of China's AI models is handing President Xi Jinping new bragging rights and a stronger claim to shaping the technology's global rules, even as their growing power stirs security alarm in Washington and Beijing alike. Xi is expected to make his case in his debut at the World AI Conference in Shanghai starting Friday, an event that previously attracted Elon Musk and Jack Ma. He'll be addressing scores of tech and government leaders as Chinese models win over companies worldwide, with their share of U.S. firms' AI usage nearing record 60% on the popular marketplace OpenRouter. In what could be a preview of Xi's position, state media this week cast China's openness as the antidote to a world of walls. The Communist Party's flagship mouthpiece People's Daily warned against an "AI Iron Curtain," contrasting an "oil mindset" that hoards data and computing power with a "water" approach that treats AI as a public good for all, without naming any country.

Missouri State University trained over 1,500 Chinese executives tied to China's military-industrial complex through an MBA program, a new watchdog report claims.

President Biden and China's President Xi Jinping met on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, at the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru. A federal China commission released its sprawling yearly report to Congress on Tuesday, for the first time recommending lawmakers end China's favored trade status and the provision that allows goods under 800 to enter the U.S. duty-free. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, established by Congress as a bipartisan entity to investigate and provide policy recommendations on China, is now directly advocating for Congress to end the Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) China has enjoyed since 2004. The committee will pitch its 83 policy recommendations to lawmakers on Tuesday, along with a report on China's military capabilities, its threats to U.S. allies in the region and how it is exploiting U.S. policy for its own advancement. "For decades we have engaged in whack-a-mole policy working within international organizations and guidelines to address the increasing and ambitious efforts by China to skirt laws or take advantage of trade loopholes," commission chair Robin Cleveland said. "In our hearing on the threats to American consumers this year we heard from administration and expert witnesses who were starkly clear: U.S. agencies do not know if the majority of packages coming from China include a baby toy painted with a toxic chemical--a counterfeit piece of clothing made with slave labor--or a pin head amount of fentanyl which is enough to kill the average citizen."

The US and China agree on the need for bilateral talks to reduce the risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Such talks could lead to restrictions on using AI to control nuclear weapons command and control systems. The affirmation of the need for government talks on AI safety came out of a meeting between US president Joe Biden and China's president Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco on 15 November.

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson provides analysis into the corporate world forging trade deals with China amid growing tensions on'The Story.' Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday advised his national security team to prepare for the worst-case scenario amid an increase in threats -- both internally and externally -- to the nation. The comments, carried on the state-run Xinhua News Agency, came during a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's National Security Commission. FILE: China's President Xi Jinping arrives to attend the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC summit, Nov. 19, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. Xi said the "complexity and difficulty of the national security issues we now face have increased significantly." China must "adhere to bottom-line thinking and worst-case scenario thinking, and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves, and even perilous, storm seas," he said.

Former DHS adviser Charles Marino breaks down the national security risks posed by the U.S. shooting down the third flying object in a week on'Fox News Live.' Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is expected to pay a state visit to China this week at the request of President Xi Jinping, Beijing confirmed Sunday. The visit, scheduled from Tuesday to Thursday, is Raisi's first to China since 2021 and is intended to strengthen ties between the two countries, both U.S. rivals. FILE: In this file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photo on the sidelines of a meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Sept. 16, 2022. Raisi will meet with Xi and their delegations will sign cooperation documents, according to Iran's state news agency IRNA. Meeting with Iranian and Chinese business leaders and Iranian expatriates in China is also part of his itinerary, the report added.

Many stalls and urinals are also outfitted with television screens. As of last year, over 68,000 public toilets had been refurbished, which is 20% higher than the country had hoped, the South China Morning Post explained. For many years, China has suffered from sanitary issues in its public bathrooms.

Every year, China's president Xi Jinping delivers a New Year's Eve address, outlining the country's plans for the months ahead. But Chinese netizens don't just pay attention to his words; they also scour the bookshelves behind Xi, analyzing the titles and authors found there to try and gain some insight into his mind. As reported by The Shanghaiist (and seen via Quartz), the books on AI were Pedro Domingos' The Master Algorithm and Brett King's Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane. Both deal with the potential impact of artificial intelligence on society, with King's book providing a futurist's slightly fantastical overview on this and other technologies, while Domingos' offers a more grounded and practical look at the rise of machine learning. Xi is said to be a voracious reader, and other books spotted on his shelf this year included a growing collection of Western classics (from War and Peace and The Old Man and the Sea to The Odyssey and Les Misérables), economic texts like Money Changes Everything by William N. Goetzmann and Michele Wucker's The Grey Rhino, and numerous titles on Chinese history and military strategy.