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Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive · Sep 23, 2026

1.) Xi Jinping landed in Washington tonight, red carpet waiting at Joint Base Andrews. Tomorrow he gets a State…

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Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington features a strategic state dinner with major U.S. tech leaders including Bezos, Musk, and Altman, signaling the Trump administration's focus on AI competition and leveraging tech export controls as negotiating tools. The visit centers on a clash over technology access, trade terms, and critical minerals, with the U.S. seeking pressure on Iran and fentanyl precursors while China wants relief from chip export restrictions.

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    1.) Xi Jinping landed in Washington tonight, red carpet waiting at Joint Base Andrews. Tomorrow he gets a State Arrival Ceremony with 479 troops. But the state dinner guest list is what tells you the real story. 💎🧵

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    2.) Sitting down to dinner with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Google's Sundar Pichai, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Tim Cook, Michael Dell, and Citigroup's Jane Fraser.

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    3.) That's not a courtesy invite. Trump laid out the stakes himself this week: "Whoever wins superintelligence wins. That's the group that wins. And we're leading now over China by a lot."

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    4.) What Beijing came for is relief from our technology export controls and roughly $30 billion in low or zero tariff exports. Put plainly, they want the chips.

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    5.) What we came for is different. Rare earths and critical minerals still flowing, big agricultural purchases locked in before the midterms, real movement on fentanyl precursor chemicals, and Chinese pressure on Iran.

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    6.) On extending the trade truce, Treasury Secretary Bessent offered six months. China asked for two years. That gap is the entire negotiation, and six months keeps Trump holding the cards.

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    7.) Reporting says the administration will also push for the release of Gulshan Abbas, held in China for eight years.

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    8.) So the men who build America's artificial intelligence will be eating dinner with the man whose government wants that technology more than anything else on the table. Watch who Xi talks to at that dinner, not what gets said at the podium. 💎🇺🇸