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Bessent, Greer and He tackle the economy, AI safety days before the two leaders meet in Washington, D.C.
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Nayan Sethin Washington US Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessentand Trade RepresentativeJamieson Greerheld their final preparatory talks with Chinese Vice PremierHe Lifengin New York on Sunday to work out deliverables fornext week’s summitbetween Chinese PresidentXi Jinpingand US PresidentDonald Trumpin Washington. The leaders are meeting at JP Morgan’s headquarters in the city to discuss possible economic outcomes for the summit and begin their long-awaited dialogue on artificial intelligence safety and governance.
The latest meeting mirrored those in May, when Bessent and He held
talks in Seoul just daysbeforeTrump met Xi in Beijing. Last week, the South China Morning Post reported that Washington and Beijing would fold AI discussions into a broader economic meeting.
The two leaders agreed in Beijing in May to establish an intergovernmental dialogue on AI, which ran separately from the economic talks led by Bessent and He for months.
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