The US and Chinese governments will continue talks on AI and technology transfer licenses after the Chinese leader’s state visit.
Published September 25, 2026
US President Donald Trump praised his “very productive” meeting with President Xi Jinping during the Chinese leader’s state visit to Washington, D.C., this week.
In a post on his Truth social account Friday, President Trump wrote that “tremendous things are going to happen,” without giving details.
President Trump said the meeting, which was Xi’s first visit to the United States in more than a decade, was productive for both the United States and China, and emphasized the issue of artificial intelligence (AI).
“[Xi]seems to have preferred to call artificial intelligence, which has a poor and inaccurate name, a much more accurate and important name: SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be ‘SUPER!'” Last night, everyone agreed, the US president said.
President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly this week that he would change the name of artificial intelligence to “superintelligence” in all U.S. government documents.
President Trump hosted a lavish state dinner for President Xi on Thursday, which included high-profile guests such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla chief Elon Musk, who were seated at the head table alongside the Chinese and U.S. presidents.
Despite being locked in a bitter strategic standoff over AI, President Trump and President Xi Jinping have rejected recent calls from within the U.S. tech industry to slow the pace of development, citing concerns about control over the rapidly advancing technology.
On Friday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer told Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher that creating communication channels around AI is one of the key challenges the U.S. and Chinese governments are trying to overcome.
“I don’t think there is an AI department in any government in the world right now, so that could raise the question of who do you call when you have a problem,” Greer said, adding, “When you think about it, it reminds me of the Red Zone between the Kremlin and the White House during the Cold War.”
Guria said another meeting on AI is planned between representatives from the two countries within the next month.
Separately, Greer told U.S. media on Friday that current talks do not cover the sale of small quantities of high-quality U.S. chips that would require a license.
“These are the crown jewels of American technology. This is how we get an edge in the race for superintelligence, AI, so those conversations … are not really happening in this negotiation,” Greer said.
On Friday, President Trump will take President Xi to visit the National Archives, where he will present the holy book of American democracy to the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country before the end of a three-day visit.
Mr. Xi will leave Washington after touring the country’s archives, where the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are kept.
Although the two leaders expressed their commitment to maintaining harmony between the world’s two largest economies, no major progress was made on issues such as trade and the safety of AI.
