As Trump Meets Xi, Experts Say China Targets Weak Spots In Western Tech

As President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington for their second summit of the year on Thursday, technology analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that China is closing the artificial intelligence gap by focusing on real-world deployment and open-source models rather than pure research. Jason Rathje, a former Biden Defense Department official now president of public sector at webAI, said China has worked out practical applications of AI while U. S. developers have led in scientific advancement, and he urged that nothing coming out of the meeting restrain American open-source competitiveness. The talks came days after the Associated Press reported the Trump administration had floated notifying Beijing when AI-related incidents occur.

Thomas Duesterberg of the Hudson Institute said Beijing's open-weight AI push is a workaround for U. S. chip export controls, since Chinese firms lack top-tier processors and instead release systems that approach the performance of leading models; heavy government subsidies have also helped those models attract users quickly. He added that advanced chips still reach China through buyers in third countries whose funding sources are hidden. Duesterberg pointed to Huawei, which he said is subsidized and allegedly configured to allow access to phone systems it runs abroad, claims the company denies. Huawei faces federal trade-secret and sanctions-evasion charges being tried in Brooklyn and sits on the FCC's Covered List of security risks.

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