What the Trump-Xi summit means for everyone else
When the heads of the world’s two most powerful nations sit down together next week, the rest of the globe has reason to watch closely.
Whatever China’s Xi Jinping and America’s Donald Trump decide in Beijing could carry consequences far beyond their own borders.
The meeting comes amid intensifying debate over which country - China or the United States - will seize the commanding heights of this century’s defining technologies, especially artificial intelligence, and with them a decisive edge in global power.
Hardliners in…