Chad Scott

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American Power · American Power Extra: Trump, Xi and the Race to Control the Future · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

So if he starts to handcuff that growth, there's no other economic engines moving right now due to his tariffs and the increase in energy prices.

So he has no incentive to hit the brakes on AI right now in the US.

And as such, there's this strange tension taking place between the US and China.

Washington wants to discuss AI safety with Beijing, but only within the confines of restricting China's ability to pass the US.

Meanwhile, Chinese officials are dealing with the exact same problem, just in reverse.

So basically both sides are wanting rules for thee, but not for me, which makes any kind of AI agreement highly unlikely and it's going to be a problem.

For all of us and broader humanity.

Nonetheless, any agreement that keeps both sides talking, that establishes regular expert meetings or creates some basic rules around dangerous uses of AI could still come out of this summit.

And we have seen this in the past, some surprise efforts made, such as the agreement that came out previously to not attach nuclear weapons to AI systems.

Now, moving on, there is always the elephant in the room, and that is Taiwan.

This is an area where there may not be a lot of agreement, but there's going to be a lot of careful treading.

There is currently a proposed US arms package for Taiwan worth more than fourteen billion dollars that has not been approved by the Trump administration, which is ironic because the Trump administration has called on Taiwan to increase its defense spending, but then is restricting the weapons Taiwan would be buying.

Nonetheless, Trump's own party is pushing back against some of Trump's previous efforts to keep Taiwan at arm's length, as Republican Senator Pete Ricket said this week that the United States is already around thirty billion dollars behind in delivering weapons previously promised to Taiwan, and that is unacceptable.

There was already a delay in shipment when Trump approved an eleven billion dollar arms package back in December of twenty twenty five.

But many on the hill are arguing that delivering weapons already purchased by Taiwan is far more important than just announcing another giant package.

These weapons need to be delivered.

However, Trump has described arm sales to Taiwan as a negotiating chip with China, which tells us he may be thinking about not giving Taiwan those weapons if it means he can elicit some concessions from China.

And these are on weapons that

Deals have already been made and payments have already been given to the US in some cases.

Nonetheless, members of the Trump administration have come forward and clarified some of Trump's previous comments after that May summit by saying that he was misunderstood and that US policy toward Taiwan had not changed.

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