[🇨🇳] China vs USA

[Saif]

Trump says he does not want to ‘integrate’ with China on AI

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that despite a "big talk" this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping on AI, the US should not join efforts with China on the technology. "We had a big talk on SI," Trump told reporters at the White House, using his preferred name of super intelligence.

thefinancialexpress.com.bd

Trump says he does not want to ‘integrate’ with China on AI

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that despite a "big talk" this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping on AI, the US should not join efforts with China on the technology.

"We had a big talk on SI," Trump told reporters at the White House, using his preferred name of super intelligence.

"What they want to do is stop our progress because we're leading China by a lot, and we're going to keep it that way. We didn't spend that much time talking about it," he added.

Trump said he did not want to "integrate" AI initiatives with China because of US dominance.

"I would rather not integrate because we're leading by a lot," he said, adding: "When you're leading, you don't open it up to each other".​

 

[Saif]

US-China differences remain after Trump-Xi summit in Washington

President Donald Trump hoped his pomp-filled summit with Xi Jinping in Washington last week would showcase the strength of his personal relationship with the Chinese leader. Instead, the limited outcomes showed just how far apart Washington and Beijing remain on key issues, and reinforced a view a

thefinancialexpress.com.bd

US-China differences remain after Trump-Xi summit in Washington

​

​

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping tour the National Archives in Washington, DC, US, Sept 25, 2026. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

President Donald Trump hoped his pomp-filled summit with Xi Jinping in Washington last week would showcase the strength of his personal relationship with the Chinese leader.

Instead, the limited outcomes showed just how far apart Washington and Beijing remain on key issues, and reinforced a view among analysts that Xi sees little reason to grant Trump major political victories ahead of November’s midterm elections.

“The US-China relationship has settled into a managed stalemate,” said Craig Singleton, senior director for China at US-based think tank, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“The elaborate pageantry matters precisely because there is still relatively little substantive progress to showcase.”

Both sides said they reached consensus on lowering tariffs for a $60 billion batch of non-sensitive goods, but there was no timeline for adoption. At the same time, a deadline for a broader trade accord was pushed into next year.

The absence of a Chinese CEO delegation accompanying Xi also highlighted the challenges of overcoming US suspicion of Chinese investment, casting doubt on the viability of a two-way investment scheme the leaders unveiled at a Beijing summit in May, analysts said.

“The Trump-Xi summit created a positive political atmosphere but did nothing to narrow differences, or reduce mutual suspicions,” said Drew Thompson, a senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.

‘PR Win’ For China

White House officials had tempered expectations before the summit, pointing out that the leaders would also meet at international forums in Shenzen and Miami before year end.

But while the uneventful meeting capped off a diplomatic week that exposed the limits of Trump’s powers, Joe Mazur, geopolitics analyst at Beijing-based consultancy Trivium, said it served as a “PR win” for China.

From the outset, Trump went out of his way to fete Xi – the leader of a country he has previously said is “killing America” with unfair trade practices.

He broke protocol to greet him at the airport, the first time a US president has done so for a world leader in 11 years.

Later, addressing a coterie of top government officials and tech magnates assembled for a lavish state banquet in his honour, Trump said they “had never gotten along better”.

“The extraordinary courtesy the Americans extended to Xi Jinping met and far exceeded China’s expectations,” said Shen Weizhong, a former Chinese foreign ministry official and vice president of Beijing-based think tank Global Governance Institution.

“The Chinese do not feel that a visit necessarily has to result in a specific number of agreements, or in tariff reductions or other such outcomes ... The mere fact that they meet, nod to one another, and shake hands speaks volumes.”

Xi is also in no rush to make concessions, analysts say.

China’s dominance in production of rare earths, minerals critical for sectors from tech to autos and defence, gives it a powerful source of leverage, while its trade with the world has surged despite Trump’s tariff threats.

Trump did not come away completely empty-handed, however.

China has proposed cutting tariffs on a range of US agricultural goods, from corn to dairy, a commerce ministry list showed on Monday. In return, the US will reduce levies on Chinese imports such as toys, fireworks and Christmas ornaments.

That will be welcome news for American farmers, who form one of Trump’s key voting blocs, ahead of midterm elections that look challenging for his Republican party.

But commodity analysts were also quick to add that soybeans, one of the US’ largest exports, did not feature on China’s list, leaving those purchases potentially hostage to any deterioration in ties.

Buying Time on Taiwan

China also gave little indication it is willing to help Trump end the war in Iran that has dragged the US president’s approval rating to the lowest in his political career.

Shortly after Xi’s departure, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng pushed back against the US on Iran and its threats against Cuba at a UN General Assembly meeting in New York.

The Chinese leader also did not shy away from pressing Trump on thornier topics such as US support for Taiwan, the democratically-ruled island claimed by Beijing.

Trump avoided the subject in his public comments, in a stark contrast with the May summit, at which he called a pending $14-billion package of arms sales to Taiwan a “negotiating chip” with Beijing.

Washington has cast the busy summit schedule with Xi as important to keeping ties on even keel between the world’s two biggest economies.

But frequent interactions of the leaders also buy Beijing time on unwanted US actions such as the arms sales to Taiwan, said Jeremy Chan, a senior analyst at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group.

“That’s a major strategic win for the Chinese and a major loss for Taiwan and a lot of US allies and partners in the region,” said Chan, a former US diplomat in China.​

 

[Saif]

https://www.newagebd.net/post/asia/316417/china-better-in-latin-america-than-us-poll

China better in Latin America than US: poll
Agence France-Presse . Bogotá, Colombia 04 October, 2026, 00:00

China’s influence in Latin America is now viewed more positively than that of the United States, a major poll conducted in 17 Latin American countries showed Friday.

The 2026 Latinobarometro survey showed that China overtaking the United States in terms of influence for the first time since the annual survey began in 1995.

It showed 57 per cent of people in Latin America considering the United States to be a positive influence, down from 60 per cent in 2020.

China, meanwhile, was considered a positive influence by 65 per cent of respondents, a jump from 48 per cent six years ago.

Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic were the only countries in the region where US influence was deemed more positive than that of China.

The report partly attributed the shift to Washington’s ‘almost complete absence’ from the region in the two decades after the 2003 Iraq War.

During that time, Latin America ‘drew closer to other powers, to China, to the European Union, to Japan,’ Marta Lagos, director of Latinobarometer, told AFP.

Lagos said China had won over Latin American populations by allowing them to access cheaper imports.

‘The void that China fills is the void in people’s pockets, more than anything else,’ she said.

The growing disaffection towards the United States comes nearly halfway through Trump’s second term, during which he has openly asserted his desire for hegemony over Latin America, as part of what he calls the ‘Donroe Doctrine.’

As a country, the United States remains more popular than China, with 63 per cent saying they had a favourable view of the world’s top economy, compared to 58 per cent for its arch-rival.

But America’s popularity was markedly down compared to 2024, when Democratic president Joe Biden was in the White House and 73 per cent had a favorable view of the United States.

The ‘Donroe Doctrine’ blends Trump’s first name with that of James Monroe, the fifth US president, who more than two centuries ago declared Latin America the United States’ exclusive sphere of influence.

Trump’s push to restore US dominance in what Washington calls ‘our hemisphere’ was in evidence in January when the United States overthrew Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

The Latinobarometro poll showed a majority of people in all but one country—Argentina—approving of Maduro’s capture by US special forces.

But only 35 per cent considered it benefited Venezuela, compared to 28 per cent who said it harmed the Caribbean country.

Citizens of Venezuela itself were, however, among those who viewed US influence most positively.

Chile-based Latinobarometro is a non-profit organization that surveys opinions on a range of issues, from democracy to the economy, security and migration.

The 2026 survey was based on some 19,200 face-to-face interviews carried out in 17 countries between May 7 and June 17, with a margin of error of 1 per cent.​