XI SUMMIT LOOMS, MUSK OPENS U.S. MODELS TO CCP | WAR ROOM PM W STEVE BANNON
A three-day state visit by Xi Jinping is planned for late September 2026, with arrival and White House events around Sept. 24. Steve Bannon says the timing is wrong: the priority should be containing the CCP's AI buildout, not ceremony.
Bannon argues the U.S. must "destroy the ecosystem" of CCP access to American AI — chips, graduate education, and Chinese nationals in frontier labs — rather than treat the visit as business as usual.
Musk has proposed that leading U.S. labs and Chinese firms run safety tests on each other's models before release. War Room rejects that as giving a strategic…
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