Xi Jinping and Bill Gates Reunite Amidst US-China Tensions.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, in Beijing, marking the Chinese leader's first known one-on-one meeting with a Western business figure in years. Xi called on Gates to help promote US-China relations and greeted the tech tycoon warmly, saying he was "the first American friend I've seen this year." Gates' visit comes at a precarious time for US-China relations, with tensions running high over the future of AI and advanced semiconductors, raids by Chinese officials on international companies, and heightened fears that China could attack Taiwan.
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