Trump’s Big Xi Meeting Produces Single Laughable Takeaway

After a day of grand gestures and pageantry, Donald Trump’s summit with China does not appear to have delivered anything substantive on trade, technology or Beijing’s support for Iran.

But the U.S. president did have one small thing to boast about on Friday morning: that his Chinese counterpart seems open to Trump’s desire to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence.”

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands alongside US first lady Melania Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping's wife Peng Liyuan, after arriving to tour the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., US, September 25, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper / Kylie Cooper / REUTERS

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