Xi ends Washington visit with trade truce extended to January
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade truce to 10 January, NBC News reported.
Artificial intelligence was also on the agenda. Before the visit, Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng held the first formal US-China talks on AI in New York on 20 September.
At those talks, the US proposed an AI incident alert system for events that count as national security threats. Neither government mentioned the proposal in its official statements this week.
China’s Commerce Ministry later said the AI talks were productive and that the two delegations agreed on several issues, Quartz reported. It did not say which issues.
At the White House on Thursday, Xi told Trump that AI must stay under...
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