The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Scott Bessent, has explained that Washington has put on the table before the Chinese Government "a reciprocal notification mechanism" regarding Artificial Intelligence, after meeting with Vice Premier He Lifeng and other high-ranking officials from Beijing. Bessent has described these conversations as "very successful," held just before this week's summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
"The United States has proposed establishing a notification mechanism between both countries and we want a shared vision of common goals and threats," Bessent stated to the press at the end of the meeting, in a brief intervention in which he specified that the proposal would be known as "AI Dialogue between the United States and China," according to information released by the Bloomberg agency.
The Treasury official emphasized that this notification system would be activated in the event of incidents related to national security and stressed that, from Washington's perspective, it is key to move towards "greater transparency between the two main global powers in the field of artificial intelligence."
On the other hand, the United States Trade Representative (USTR), Jamieson Greer, has indicated that both delegations are "laying the groundwork" for the next meeting between the leaders of the two largest economies on the planet to be a success. In this context, he highlighted the creation of a Trade Board with the capacity to "create a kind of stabilizing counterweight for the relationship."
According to Greer, the list of "non-sensitive" products that would be covered by this approach would likely include consumer goods and low-tech items from China, along with energy, agricultural, and medical products exported by the United States. "There is a scenario in which a relatively small subset of non-sensitive American and Chinese products can be traded in a balanced manner and that, in the future, as trade measures arise, we can consider them as a separate category," he stated, reiterating that this group would likely include Chinese consumer and low-tech goods, as well as American energy, agricultural, and medical supplies.
The meeting has taken place about ten months after the tariff truce agreed upon by both governments in October 2025, a pact that expires next month in November. So far, neither party has clarified whether extending this commitment is on the table or not.