Welcome to Red Thread, Euractiv’s weekly newsletter on the EU’s relationship with China and the wider Asia-Pacific.
I’m Christina Zhao in Oceania, joined by Anupriya Datta in Europe.
This week, we decode Chinese President Xi Jinping’s keynote AI speech…
Xi Jinping at the World AI Conference in Shanghai [Ng Han Guan-Pool via Getty Images]
President Xi Jinping opened his keynote at China’s flagship AI conference by crediting the US with inventing artificial intelligence. He then spent the rest of the speech arguing that China should shape its future, describing AI as “an international public good that benefits humanity.”
