Late last month, President Trump hosted a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The two leaders covered topics such as drugs, trade, and artificial intelligence. Recently on The Drew Mariani Show, Drew was joined by longtime China expert Steve Mosher to cover what China and the U.S. actually want.
China on Its Heels
Mosher argues that President Trump has slowed China’s advances in the Americas. “He’s ousted China’s agents from Venezuela and the Panama Canal. The Cuban dictatorship can’t keep the lights on, [and] China is now permanently shut out of Greenland.”
Things are not much better for Xi at home. “They’ve got a collapsing real estate market, rising unemployment levels, [and] aging population,” Mosher told Drew. The long time China expert also said China also has a national debt “three times larger than our own.”
The debt crisis is compounded by another math problem: population decline. Despite the reversal of the one-child policy, the Chinese are not having enough children.
“Part of the reason is that there are 30 million more men than women in China. There are so few young women in China that every young woman would have to get married at 21…and have four children to stop the population from declining,” Mosher said.
The Quest for AI Dominance
Artificial intelligence is one of the key areas of tension between the two countries. “People need to understand that one of China’s covert secret influence operations in the United States is to gin up anger against artificial intelligence and to gin up anger against data centers,” Mosher said. By sowing political distrust for the AI systems, China hopes it can leapfrog the current U.S. technical advantage.
“Our AI has to be able to outsmart China’s AI in order to keep us safe,” Mosher argues.
Post-Summit Highlights
In their post-summit fact sheet, the White House touted advances that the U.S. and China made to keep Americas safer. Specifically, the document said the two countries agreed that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, that the U.S., Russia, and China should have a trilateral arms control negotiation, and that the U.S. and China “established the U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue to exchange views on risks and benefits related to SI.”