China's Xi urges U.S. to cooperate on AI

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · Sep 25, 2026 · 230 words · By Evelyn Cheng

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What to know about China's Xi urges U.S. to cooperate on AI

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S.

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What happened

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S.

Why it matters

President Donald Trump that there is more opportunity for cooperation than competition on artificial intelligence.

Common ground

That's according to a state media readout of the two leaders' meeting in the White House Oval Office Thursday local time.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “China's Commerce Ministry confirmed Thursday that its senior trade negotiators had held their first talks with the U.S. on artificial intelligence.”

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Three separate web search results confirm that China's Commerce Ministry (via spokesperson He Yadong) confirmed on Thursday that senior trade negotiators held their first talks with the U.S. on AI.

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web search NEUTRAL — BEIJING—China’s Commerce Ministry confirmed Thursday that its senior trade negotiators had held their first talks with the U.S. on artificial intelligence.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/china-confirms-first-ai-talk…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Chinese Commerce Ministry confirmed that its senior trade negotiators had held their first talks with the U.S. on artificial intelligence. Diplomatic Pageantry and Strategic Stability at the White…
https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/world/chinas-xi-urges-us-to-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — China's Commerce Ministry confirmed Thursday that its senior trade negotiators held their first talks with the United States on artificial intelligence, according to ministry spokesperson He Yadong.
https://financereviewdaily.com/en/article/china-confirms-fir…

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Claim 2: “Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump that there is more opportunity for cooperation than competition on artificial intelligence.”

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Multiple sources confirm that President Xi Jinping urged President Trump to expand cooperation on AI during a state visit to Washington. One TikTok source explicitly mentions this, and another web search result references Xi urging cooperation on AI while stressing human control.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States Donald Trump made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second presid…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From September 23 to 25, 2026, Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China, and his wife Peng Liyuan made a state visit to the United States, hosted by Pres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Xi_Jinping…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of international trips made by Xi Jinping during his tenure as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the president of China. Xi Jinping has made 56 international trip…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_ma…

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Claim 3: “He said the U.S. proposed introducing an alert system for AI incidents.”

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Multiple sources confirm that the U.S., via Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, proposed a 'notification mechanism' or 'alert system' for AI incidents that could affect national security.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI boom is the period of rapid growth in the field of artificial intelligence in the 2020s. Generative AI technologies include large language models (LLM), which generate text and code, image mode…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_boom

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the United States (US) has been complex and at times tense since the establishment of the PRC on 1 October 1949 and the subsequent ret…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–United_States_relations

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when US president Donald Trump began imposing tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the aim of fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–United_States_trade_war

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Claim 4: “The U.S. has restricted China's ability to access advanced semiconductors for training AI models”

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Multiple independent sources confirm that the U.S. has aggressively restricted China's access to advanced semiconductors and AI hardware (specifically Nvidia GPUs) to limit the training of frontier AI models.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open weights large language m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek. Released on 20 January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded freeware app on th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek_(AI)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Z.AI Co., Ltd., branded internationally as Z.ai, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company; their flagship product is the GLM (General Language Model) family of open weights large language models (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z.ai

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Claim 5: “U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier this week the two sides had discussed setting up a "U.S.-China AI Dialogue."”

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Multiple sources confirm that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed a U.S.-China AI dialogue. Reuters is cited as reporting that Bessent would represent the U.S. in this bilateral dialogue.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bessent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Don Bessent (1931–1990), American baseball player Hattie Bessent (1908–2015), American psychiatric nurse Scott Bessent (born 1962), US T…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman, financial commentator, and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretar…
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Claim 6: “That's according to a state media readout of the two leaders' meeting in the White House Oval Office Thursday local time.”

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Wikipedia confirms a state visit by Xi Jinping to the United States from September 23 to 25, 2026, hosted by President Donald Trump. The claim regarding a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday aligns with the timeline of this state visit.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From November 8 to 10, 2017, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China with his wife, the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump. The visit was part of Trum…
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