How are the United States and China pursuing AI development? On this episode of The Beijing Brief, Ryan Hass sits down with Kyle Chan and R. David Edelman to discuss the two countries differing AI strategies and assess why the two countries have taken a different approach to their AI ambitions.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: AI is a big deal. AI is going to be maybe the biggest thing, bigger than the internet, bigger than anything else. We are leading China by a lot.
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HASS: Hello, you’re listening to The Beijing Brief from the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, part of the Brookings Podcast Network. I’m Ryan Hass, director of the China Center, and The Beijing Brief is a biweekly podcast focused on unpacking the forces shaping the U.S.-China relationship and China’s political, economic, and technological ambitions.
Today, our topic is the role of artificial intelligence in the U.S.-China relationship. This is a topic that members of the Trump administration have spoken about frequently over recent weeks and months. I want to play you a few clips from Secretary Bessent and Secretary Burgum.
