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Trump and Xi clash more over AI, trade and Iran, but still seek stability

Trump and Xi clash more over AI, trade and Iran, but still seek stability

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September 22nd, 2026

Trump and Xi clash more over AI, trade and Iran, but still seek stability

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State visits typically take place when relations between two countries are harmonious, yet this week, as US President Donald Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington, the economic and technological rivalry between the two nations was escalating, particularly in the race for artificial intelligence.

国事访问通常发生在两国关系融洽之时,但本周,当美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿接待中国领导人习近平时,两国的经济和技术竞争却在不断升级,尤其是在人工智能竞赛方面。

Neither side anticipates reaching any major agreement, but the two leaders are expected to display a friendly posture at their third meeting since Trump's return to the White House, in an attempt to stabilize a fragile relationship.

双方均不预期能达成任何重大协议,但预计两位领导人将在特朗普重返白宫以来的第三次会晤中展现友好姿态,以试图稳定脆弱的关系。

This comes even as the world's two largest economies vie for the upper hand in artificial intelligence development and trade, while simultaneously seeking leverage on persistent flashpoints such as Iran and Taiwan.

尽管这两个世界最大经济体在人工智能发展和贸易上争夺上风,同时在伊朗和台湾等持续热点问题上寻求筹码。

"The fact that they are meeting, that dialogue is underway, and that relationships are being built may be just as important as the outcomes of the meeting," said Steve Daines, a Republican senator from Montana.

“他们正在会晤,对话正在进行,关系正在建立,这一事实可能与会晤成果同样重要,”蒙大拿州共和党参议员史蒂夫·戴恩斯说。

He advises Trump on China affairs and recently traveled to China to pave the way for the summit.

他为特朗普提供中国事务建议,最近曾前往中国为峰会铺路。

Speaking recently at a forum in Beijing, former Chinese ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai noted that there are "always problems, sometimes very big problems" between the two countries, yet "we will do our utmost to maintain overall stability."

前中国驻美大使崔天凯近日在北京一场论坛上指出,两国之间“总是有问题,有时是非常大的问题”,然而“我们将尽最大努力维护总体稳定”。

Xi Jinping's trip to Washington, which began on Wednesday, is his first in 10 years.

习近平于周三开始的华盛顿之行,是他10年来的首次。

His meeting with Trump comes as the two countries have eased off from last year's fierce trade war, during which both sides imposed exorbitant tariffs on each other, threatening the global economy.

他与特朗普会晤之际,两国已从去年激烈的贸易战中缓和下来——当时双方互征天价关税,威胁全球经济。

China also cut off its world-leading supply of critical minerals, which are essential for products ranging from electric vehicles to fighter jets.

中国还切断了其世界领先的关键矿产供应,这些矿产是从电动汽车到战斗机等产品所必需的。

The United States is not only trying to balance trade, but also to maintain its technological dominance in order to protect national security and global leadership.

美国不仅试图平衡贸易,还试图维持其技术主导地位,以保护国家安全和全球领导力。

Over the past few years, China has accumulated tremendous economic, technological, and military power in order to narrow the gap with the United States and to seek to consolidate its position in the global order.

中国在过去几年中积累了巨大的经济、技术和军事力量,以缩小与美国的差距,并寻求巩固其在全球秩序中的地位。

The stability that both sides seek is "driven by deep competition," said Evan Medeiros, a senior adviser at the Asia Group consultancy.

双方所寻求的稳定是“出于深度竞争的原因”,亚洲集团咨询公司高级顾问埃文·梅代罗斯说。

"It is essentially two geopolitical heavyweights testing each other out on the playground, trying to figure out what the next move might be."

“这基本上是两个地缘政治强人在操场上互相试探,试图确定下一步可能是什么。”

Da Wei, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, said that although the two countries have blacklisted each other's companies and restricted the flow of high-tech products, they appear to be entering a "new normal" of "overall stability."

清华大学国际安全与战略研究中心主任达巍表示,尽管两国互相将对方公司列入黑名单并限制高科技产品流动,但两国似乎正在进入一种“总体稳定”的“新常态”。

He stated that the two leaders should now reach an agreement that their respective governments are capable of implementing, and stressed, "We need to act quickly."

他表示,两位领导人当前理应达成一项其各自政府具备执行能力的协议,并强调“我们需要快速行动”。

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Developing artificial intelligence technology has become a crucial battleground, and although tech company CEOs warn that an out-of-control AI could pose a threat to humanity, neither side has any intention of slowing down.

发展人工智能技术已成为关键战场,尽管科技公司CEO警告称,失控的人工智能可能对人类构成威胁,双方都无意放缓脚步。

"Whoever wins AI wins everything," Trump has said repeatedly.

“谁赢得人工智能,谁就赢得一切,”特朗普多次表示。

On Monday, he declared on social media that the United States was ahead of China, and said he "would not kill growth, would not kill something bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet itself."

他于周一在社交媒体上宣称,美国正领先于中国,并称他“不会扼杀增长,不会扼杀比工业革命或互联网本身更大的东西”。

China, too, cannot afford to fail.

中国同样无法承受失败的后果。

In a rare and bluntly worded article, Chen Yixin, China's Minister of State Security, warned that if foreign and hostile forces acquire more powerful capabilities, artificial intelligence will directly endanger the Communist Party's rule.

中国国家安全部部长陈一新在一篇罕见而直白的文章中警告称,倘若外国及敌对势力获取更强大的能力,人工智能将直接危及共产党的统治。

The United States has already restricted exports of its most powerful AI chips to China, and it accuses Chinese developers of exploiting American AI models on an industrial scale to extract their capabilities.

美国已在限制向中国出口其最强大的人工智能芯片,并指责中国开发者以工业规模利用美国人工智能模型来提取其能力。

Beijing has stated that this practice, known as distillation, is widely used, with American companies being no exception, and has criticised the United States for attempting to monopolise the industry.

北京方面表示,这种被称为蒸馏的做法被广泛使用,美国公司也不例外,并批评美国试图垄断该行业。

Beijing is equally displeased by America's attempts to build alliances that exclude China, and is therefore seeking to attract developing countries in order to shape new global AI guardrails.

北京方面对美国试图组建将中国排除在外的联盟同样感到不满,因此正寻求通过吸引发展中国家来制定新的全球人工智能护栏。

Nevertheless, cooperation between the United States and China in the field of artificial intelligence can still be described as a small step forward.

尽管如此,美中两国在人工智能领域的合作仍可谓迈出了微小的一步。

After meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on Sunday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the American side has proposed establishing a new "notification mechanism" for AI incidents that could endanger national security.

美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特周日于纽约与中国国务院副总理何立峰举行会晤后表示,美方已提议针对可能危及国家安全的AI事件建立一套新的“通报机制”。

"We believe that, as with any cross-border activity, moving from closed systems toward greater transparency is of vital importance for the world's first and second largest AI powers," Bessent said.

“我们认为,正如任何跨境活动一样,从封闭走向更加透明,对世界第一和第二人工智能大国来说都至关重要,”贝森特说。

Although the United States and China have consistently avoided broad punitive measures that could undermine the trade truce, both sides are still blacklisting individual companies and banning specific products.

尽管美中两国始终避免采取可能破坏贸易休战的广泛惩罚性措施,但双方仍在将个别公司列入黑名单,并禁止特定产品。

"What we are seeing is a degree of probing and exploration by both sides, to figure out what they can do on the competition front while sustaining the momentum of dialogue at the leaders' level," said Mira Rapp-Hooper, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Asia Policy Studies.

“我们看到的,是双方一定程度的试探与探查,以了解在维持领导人层面对话势头的同时,还能在竞争方面做些什么,”布鲁金斯学会亚洲政策研究中心访问研究员米拉·拉普-胡珀说。

The United States has recently turned its sights on China's telecommunications and surveillance equipment, companies accused of forced labor in ethnic minority regions of Xinjiang, and China's advanced robotics and drones.

美国近期将矛头对准了中国的电信与监控设备、被指控在新疆少数民族地区实施强迫劳动的企业,以及中国先进的机器人和无人机。

The Pentagon has also barred Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, and other major Chinese companies from obtaining U.S. defense contracts.

五角大楼还禁止阿里巴巴、比亚迪、百度及其他主要中国企业获取美国国防合同。

In response, Beijing imposed export controls on drones and related technologies, and blacklisted six American companies on the grounds that they had supported punitive measures related to Xinjiang.

作为回应,北京对无人机及相关技术实施了出口管制,并将六家美国公司列入黑名单,原因是这些公司支持了与新疆有关的惩罚性措施。

After the Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs on trading partners this year, his administration has been seeking alternative avenues to impose tariffs.

在最高法院今年推翻特朗普对贸易伙伴的关税后,其政府便一直设法通过其他途径征收关税。

In July, the White House imposed a 12.5% tariff on imports from 60 trading partners, including China, ostensibly on the grounds that these countries had failed to take adequate measures to prevent the importation of goods produced with forced labour.

白宫于7月对包括中国在内的60个贸易伙伴的进口商品加征了12.5%的关税,其表面理由是这些国家未能采取充分措施,以防止进口强迫劳动生产的产品。

The United States also plans to impose an additional 7.5% tariff on China, accusing it of producing goods far in excess of its reasonable consumption capacity.

美国还计划对中国进一步加征7.5%的关税,并指责中国生产的商品远远超出其合理消费能力。

Analysts point out that the current tariff levels still fall within a range that both sides can tolerate; however, any significant increase could reignite tensions.

分析人士指出,当前的关税水平尚处于双方均可承受的区间,然而一旦出现任何显著攀升,便可能再度引燃紧张局势。

However, the Trump administration has launched efforts to isolate Iran from its remaining economic partners, yet Beijing insists on its right to trade with Tehran.

然而,特朗普政府已发起行动,试图将伊朗与其剩余经济伙伴隔离开来,但北京坚持其与德黑兰贸易的权利。

So far, the Trump administration has taken almost no action to punish China, partly in order to avoid jeopardizing the leaders' summit.

迄今为止,特朗普政府在惩罚中国方面几乎未采取任何行动,部分原因是为了避免危及领导人峰会。

However, Alicia García-Herrero, Asia-Pacific economist at the French investment bank Natixis, says Washington is also losing leverage, because China — Iran's largest oil buyer and biggest trading partner — has been developing a way to make payments outside the US-dominated financial system.

然而,法国投资银行Natixis的亚太经济学家艾丽西亚·加西亚-埃雷罗表示,华盛顿也在失去筹码,因为中国——伊朗最大的石油买家和最大的贸易伙伴——一直在建立一种在美国主导的金融体系之外进行支付的方式。

Taiwan — the self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own — remains one of the most intractable issues in US-China relations.

台湾——这个被北京声称拥有主权的自治岛屿——依然是美中关系中最棘手的问题之一。

After visiting Beijing in May, Trump suspended a large arms package for Taiwan, yet US domestic law obliges Washington to supply the island with sufficient hardware and technology for its self-defence.

特朗普在5月访问北京后暂停了一项对台湾的大规模武器一揽子计划,但美国国内法要求其向台湾提供足够的硬件和技术用于自卫。

Analysts say Xi is likely to urge Trump to postpone the arms sale further, thereby sowing doubt in Taiwan about Washington's commitments.

分析人士称,习近平很可能敦促特朗普进一步推迟军售,从而让台湾对华盛顿的承诺产生怀疑。

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