A Xi-Trump Summit With a CEO Dinner and Little Progress on Trade or AI Rules

Summits get graded on deliverables, and by this account there were few. DW reports that the US president showcased White House construction projects and hosted a lavish dinner with tech CEOs, while the meeting made little progress on key issues such as trade tensions and AI regulation. Two of the hardest files in the relationship — trade and the rules surrounding AI — were not moved forward. That is the strange shape of a summit where the imagery is abundant and the outcomes are thin: the dinner and the construction tour become the story precisely because the negotiations were not.