{"slug": "president-xi-jinping-touts-china-as-leader-for-ai-at-ai-conference-in-shanghai", "title": "President Xi Jinping touts China as leader for AI at AI conference in Shanghai", "summary": "Chinese President Xi Jinping promoted China as a global leader in artificial intelligence at a Shanghai conference, calling for international cooperation and criticizing the US approach under the Trump administration. Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), headquartered in Shanghai.", "body_md": "China’s President Xi Jinping outlined China’s vision for AI in the world. That vision touts a “more open attitude” and a “symphony of international cooperation,” presumably a reference to the United States’ differing approach under the Trump Administration, as reported[ by CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/x-china-ai-summit-risks-security.html).\n\nMeanwhile, “29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai to establish the **World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, or WAICO**, which will be headquartered in [Shanghai].”\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Artificial_Intelligence_Cooperation_Organization), the members states include:\n\n- Algeria\n- Belarus\n- Brazil\n- Cambodia\n- Cameroon\n- China\n- Congo\n- Cuba\n- Ethiopia\n- Indonesia\n- Kazakhstan\n- Kenya\n- Kyrgyzstan\n- Laos\n- Lesotho\n- Malaysia\n- Mozambique\n- Myanmar\n- Nicaragua\n- Oman\n- Pakistan\n- Russia\n- Senegal\n- Serbia\n- South Africa\n- Tajikistan\n- Uzbekistan\n- Venezuela\n- Zambia", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/president-xi-jinping-touts-china-as-leader-for-ai-at-ai-conference-in-shanghai", "canonical_source": "https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2026/07/18/president-xi-jinping-touts-china-as-leader-for-ai-at-ai-conference-in-shanghai/", "published_at": "2026-07-18 13:45:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-18 14:06:43.554568+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Xi Jinping", "World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization", "WAICO", "Shanghai", "China", "United States", "Trump Administration"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/president-xi-jinping-touts-china-as-leader-for-ai-at-ai-conference-in-shanghai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/president-xi-jinping-touts-china-as-leader-for-ai-at-ai-conference-in-shanghai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/president-xi-jinping-touts-china-as-leader-for-ai-at-ai-conference-in-shanghai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/president-xi-jinping-touts-china-as-leader-for-ai-at-ai-conference-in-shanghai.jsonld"}}