Trump envoy Daines visits Chinese AI, space firms to pave way for Xi summit in US

Montana Republican’s trip coincides with intensifying tech war that has become a major front in the US-China strategic rivalry According to accounts online from a Chinese local government and various companies, the Montana Republican travelled from Wednesday to Saturday to China’s tech hub Hangzhou and the southern city of Guangzhou. According to the online accounts, the Trump envoy visited a top Chinese university and several technology firms. Daines’ trip was a sharp contrast to a visit in July by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s bipartisan delegation, which had sought to visit several Chinese tech giants but was denied.

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