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Inside the Wild White House Dinner Where Tech Titans Met Xi Jinping

  • On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan for a state dinner at the White House, where more than 130 guests attended the historic event in the East Room.
  • The guest list featured prominent Silicon Valley leaders including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Tim Cook, illustrating the evolving nature of modern diplomacy.
  • With the room packed with Silicon Valley royalty, Trump demonstrated that foreign policy is no longer negotiated solely by politicians; tech moguls now sit at the center of US-China relations.
  • During his toast, Trump praised Jinping and their relationship, while the Chinese President echoed calls for mutual respect and stability, maintaining a friendly tone despite unresolved economic friction.
  • Washington and Beijing remain locked in a fierce contest for global computing dominance involving semiconductor export controls; the future of US-China relations will be written in code, silicon, and high-tech commerce.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) was one of the themes of the meeting between the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, and China, Xi Jinping, on Thursday night in Washington. After a bilateral meeting, at the end of the morning, the two leaders participated in a dinner with the presence of the main executives of the technology area, in a week marked by appeals from the companies themselves for international cooperation in the control of AI.

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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A lavish formal dinner in honor of Chinese President Xi Jinping was attended by Donald Trump, with everyone's eyes gathering of course, the first ladies, Melania and Peng Liwan. At a dinner held at the White House, the two leaders spoke of a new chapter in their friendship and praised each other, pledging to continue talks aimed at ensuring stability between the two countries. At the dinner — which was personally curated by Melania Trump - bil…

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It was at a state dinner in honor of the visit of the Chinese leader to Washington.Among the guests were Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, referents of the major technology companies in the United States.The most notorious absence was that of the founder of Anthropic, one of the voices demanding greater controls over the development of AI.

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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merkur.de broke the news in Munich, Germany on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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