Xi: AI Should Not Be Solo Performance By Any Country

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Xi: AI Should Not Be Solo Performance By Any Country

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Above: **Watermarked Getty Image. Kindly Replace** Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to other attendees after a group photo before the opening ceremony for the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17, 2026. Image credit: Ng Han Guan/Pool/Getty Images

The Spin

China's AI push isn'tis about domination — it's rooted in a deep fear of falling behind, shaped by memories of poverty and foreign exploitation. Xi's open-source stance at the Shanghai summit reflects a genuine effort to share AI gains globally, not hoard them. The US,U.S., meanwhile, is racing toward AGI with reckless spending while its own public grows angrier about the technology by the day.

Renji on X openDemocracy

Xi's lofty Shanghai summit speech about open-source AI and global cooperation masks a far darker reality: China's AI rise is built on industrial-scale theft, chip smuggling and iron-fisted CCP control. Beijing blocks foreign acquisitions of Chinese AI firms and jails founders who try to leave, proving the "open" rhetoric is pure performance. Trusting Xi's vision of AI as a global public good ignores what Beijing actually does.

Teortaxes on X New York Post

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 4% chance the U.S. and China will reach a formal agreement to limit frontier AI training or deployment before 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.