Alice Han and James Kynge start with Trump’s claim that China ran an influence operation using voter files from over 220 million Americans, and why Beijing is calling it fabricated. They dig into what the underlying intelligence actually shows, how it lands just two months before Trump’s planned visit to China, and what it means that global public opinion is now tilting toward Xi over Trump.
Then, Selina Xu, head of China research for former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, joins to talk about her recent trip to China with Schmidt, where the U.S. and China each have the edge in the AI race, how culture and adoption differ between the two countries, and whether Beijing’s pushback against emotional dependence on AI is a sign of things to come.
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