President Donald Trump is set to leave on Tuesday for Beijing to meet with President Xi Jinping after weeks of trying, and failing, to persuade the Chinese government to use its considerable leverage to prod Iran to agree to U.

A Trump administration once eager to gun for technological supremacy is now, for the first time, reckoning with the power AI could unleash if left unchecked.

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal that would let Beijing invest $1 trillion in the U.S.

In an interview with RFE/RL, Ken Moriyasu, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, says Beijing may tactically help ease tensions between Washington and Tehran, but will resist any effort that could threaten the survival of Iran’s regime.

China and the United States were able to cooperate in the days of Nixon and Mao, Mundie concluded, “because we had a common problem, the Soviet Union. Well, now we have another common problem. It is not another country,

China has reportedly unveiled a new wave of advanced military technologies, including AI-powered robotic systems, hypersonic weapons, electromagnetic guns, and next-generation missile platforms. Many of these systems represent a major shift toward autonomous and high-speed warfare.

Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the generals he had handpicked to run them.

A decade ago, Bradley Krae left the United States to teach English in Shenzhen, China. He spends less money and says the has found his own version of the American Dream there.

China’s Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon entered service in the mid-2010s as China’s first operational stealth fighter — but for years its weakest component was its powerplant: underpowered, unreliable variants of the Russian AL-31 engine that limited the aircraft’s thrust-to-weight ratio and prevented true supercruise.