Guo Jiakun backs inter-governmental dialogue after Xi-Trump deal set a November round and an AI incident channel
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Monday that China is willing to keep talking with the United States through an inter-governmental artificial intelligence dialogue and other channels, while still treating the United Nations as the main venue for global AI rules.
The comment came at the regular press briefing, three days after Beijing published the outcomes of President Xi Jinping’s Sept. 23-25 state visit to the United States. That list included a China-U.S. AI Dialogue, a November 2026 session and a bilateral communication channel for AI incidents.
Anadolu Agency asked whether the new bilateral mechanism would be a sufficient framework for global AI governance. Guo did not call it sufficient on its own.
“China takes a constructive and responsible part in global AI governance and acts as a solution contributor to the process,” Guo said. “China stands for upholding the UN’s role as the main channel and building a fair and equitable global AI governance system. We are willing to maintain communication and exchanges with the U.S. through inter-governmental dialogue on AI and other channels. This is both an important pathway towards AI for good and for all, and integral to the vision of a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability on the basis of respect, fairness, and reciprocity.”
The ministry’s Sept. 26 summary of the visit listed eight deliverables and understandings. Item seven is the AI package. “The two sides agree on the establishment of the China-U.S. AI Dialogue to exchange views on risks and benefits related to AI,” the document said. “The next exchange will occur in November 2026. China and the U.S. also agree to establish a bilateral communication channel for AI incidents.”
The same document did not name the agencies that will staff the dialogue, define what counts as an AI incident or say how the channel will operate. Guo’s Monday answer did not fill those gaps.
He placed the U.S. talks inside a larger frame. China, he said, wants a fair and equitable global system with the United Nations as the main channel. Bilateral contact is described as one path toward “AI for good and for all,” and as part of the relationship language the two presidents adopted last week: “a constructive relationship of strategic stability on the basis of respect, fairness, and reciprocity.”
Guo used that formula again when asked about the visit itself. From Sept. 23 to 25, at the invitation of President Donald Trump, Xi paid a state visit to the United States, Guo said. The two presidents exchanged views on China-U.S. relations and on world peace and development, and reached common understandings on that strategic-stability language. China is ready to work with the U.S. side to implement the consensus, he said.
The eight-point list also said the two militaries agreed to conclude a memorandum of understanding on crisis communication and prevention as soon as possible. That item is separate from the AI incident channel.
For executives and developers watching model risk, cross-border incidents and government interfaces, the public record now has three named pieces. There is an inter-governmental AI dialogue. The next exchange is set for November 2026. There is a bilateral channel for AI incidents. Beijing’s spokesman on Monday added a fourth point of policy: those bilateral tools sit beside, not in place of, a U.N.-centered governance track.
None of the official texts released through Monday named participants, an agenda or an incident threshold. Those details were not in Guo’s briefing and were not in the eight-point list.