In June 2013, President Barack Obama welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Sunnylands, a secluded California estate, for an informal summit. Behind the diplomatic pleasantries, Obama confronted Xi over Chinese state-directed cyber-enabled espionage and theft of American intellectual property, warning that such activities threatened American companies and the broader bilateral relationship. Thirteen years after the Sunnylands Summit, the threat has evolved significantly as the race to dominate AI frames the U.S.-China relationship. The stakes are higher, the technology more consequential, and the vulnerabilities increasingly involve attempts to compromise or coopt the "key man" at the helm of the nation's top technology companies.
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