Are Tech Leaders Pushing a U.S.-China AI Truce?

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for May 13. As Tim Cook, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang arrive in China alongside President Trump, WSJ Beijing bureau chief Jon Cheng considers whether the U.S. could be posed to expand Chinese access to advanced American tech. Plus, U.S. household debt closes in on $19 trillion as student loan delinquencies rise. And WSJ's Ed Ballard explains how continued disruption to the Strait of Hormuz is sending trade overland, potentially changing trade routes permanently. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	As President Trump and American tech leaders prepared a touchdown in Beijing,
0:38.6	we'll consider if an AI breakthrough between the U.S. and China could be in the cards. Plus, U.S. household debt closes
0:44.4	in on $19 trillion, and continued disruption to the Strait of Hormuz sends trade over land.
0:52.2	What we're really talking about is really long lines of trucks
0:55.6	barreling across the desert.
0:57.2	Before the war, there are about 100 trucks a day.
0:59.4	Now there are 7,000.
1:01.1	It's Wednesday, May 13th.
1:02.6	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,
1:04.5	and here is the AM edition of What's News.
1:07.4	The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:16.6	Thank you. News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. President Trump is on his way to Beijing for this week's summit with Chinese leader
1:21.1	Xi Jinping, and with him is an entourage of American business leaders, as our China
1:26.2	Bureau Chief Jonathan Cheng explains.
1:28.3	You have Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Elon Musk, three of the biggest
1:33.6	names in tech. And they're also a host of CEOs from the financial sector as well. And it does
1:40.4	reflect an interest still in pockets of corporate America to continue to engage with
1:46.8	China, despite all of the geopolitical risks and tensions between the two countries, despite the fact
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