Trump’s Science Adviser Visits Beijing Amid AI and Chip Control Talks

Chinese and Taiwan‑based reporting presents Xi Jinping as refusing to let Trump bargain over US arms sales to Taiwan, treating the issue as a core sovereignty concern. This view holds that Beijing wants lower tariffs and access to some US technology but will not accept open US military backing for what it sees as a breakaway province. Commentators expect China to push for looser chip export limits while insisting that any AI rules keep US weapons support for Taiwan outside the talks.

• •Xi Jinping is resisting Trump’s attempt to trade US arms sales to Taiwan for Chinese concessions.
• •Chinese officials insist that weapons sales to Taiwan violate China’s sovereignty and must be reduced.
• •Beijing wants tariff cuts and aircraft purchases to proceed without new US military steps toward Taiwan.
• •Chinese negotiators seek to keep access to certain US chips even as Washington debates tighter controls.
• •Beijing favors AI ‘guardrails’ that restrict military uses but opposes any language that treats Taiwan as a separate partner.