Xi Jinping In US: Trump Summit Tests The Future Of Trade, AI And Rare Earths

The two countries have eased some of the tensions that marked their earlier trade confrontation, but competition has increasingly shifted towards who controls critical technologies, supply chains and the industries that will shape future economic growth. That makes the Trump-Xi summit about more than negotiating tariffs: it is also about managing an increasingly competitive US-China economic relationship which is connected to trade, AI, chips, critical minerals and Taiwan.