{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2026/09/23/daines-previews-xi-summit-on-fox-news-we-want-to-see-strategic-stability/", "Daines Previews Xi Summit on Fox News: \u201cWe Want to See Strategic Stability\u201d", "2026-09-23", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Harris Faulkner on Fox News to discuss the latest on the race in AI against China and the war in Iran.\n\nWatch the full exchange HERE.\n\nDaines on Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to the US:\n\nSo let\u2019s keep in mind we\u2019ve got the two largest economies in the world, China, the United States. We\u2019ve got the two largest militaries in the world and the two leaders in AI in the world. So the stakes could not be higher. The world will be watching every moment, every word coming out of Washington this week. And credit to President Trump, who was just in Beijing in May, engaging with Xi Jinping and now returning that reciprocal visit, returning Xi Jinping now to Washington, D.C. This is unprecedented. Four short months, two heads of states, the two countries in the respective capitals.\n\n\u2026I think the world wants to see this relationship staying on relatively stable terms. I think the key word coming out of our team, the United States, is we want to see strategic stability. You\u2019ve heard that. That\u2019s important because disruptions in this relationship disrupts the global economy. It disrupts what\u2019s going on militarily, potentially. So the stakes are very high. And a credit to President Trump for keeping this relationship. The lines of communication open with Xi Jinping. And by the way, we\u2019ve got a great ambassador over in China, David Perdue. He worked in Asia, worked in China, very close to the President. We couldn\u2019t have a better ambassador this moment in Beijing, and he\u2019ll be here tonight in Washington.\n\nDaines on AI race against China:\n\nYeah, it baffles me a bit because what\u2019s at stake here is global competition. We have got to go faster than China. This really is all about a race. And if you look at what\u2019s happening in terms of public opinion. It shifted and becomes negative sentiments. Now, if I was China looking at wanting to influence public opinion in America, what would I want to see happen? I want to see the public start to move against, from a public opinion point, against AI. And so this concerns me a bit and what\u2019s going on right now in shaping public opinion.\n\n\u2026One of the big cities in China is called Hangzhou. It\u2019s one of their epicenters of innovation as it relates to AI. That\u2019s where DeepSeek is that, of course, made waves here last year in terms of AI frontier models. This is where Xi Jinping was not long ago, talking about one of their AI summits. You realize China\u2019s graduating three to five to maybe ten times more engineers every year than we are here in the United States. They\u2019re building out a world-class innovation ecosystem, and it continues to grow larger and larger every day. We\u2019re falling behind in terms of the innovation ecosystem. We\u2019re still ahead in AI. The Chinese do a better job of adopting it, putting it in place. In fact, Stanford ranked China second in the world behind the UAE. It ranked the United States 24th. So we\u2019ve got our work cut out for us. This is why we need, I would call it adaptive governance, a light, it relates to regulatory regime. We want to be able to move as fast as we can from the innovation viewpoint, but also protect possible downsides of AI. It\u2019s going to take thoughtful leadership in Washington. It\u2019s going to take strong input from the private sector. That\u2019s what, because it\u2019s moving so fast, Harris, we can\u2019t keep up with it.\n\n\u2026We\u2019ve never seen a technology move so fast. The recursive nature of AI, what that means is AI is now programming AI. It\u2019s becoming less about humans generating the next frontier models as AI generating the next AI models. So it\u2019s moving that fast. The question is, how do you put the right kind of guardrails in place that protect the American public, but also do not inhibit innovation.\n\nDaines on the latest Iranian Regime:\n\nIt\u2019s hard to understand who is in charge and who really speaks for the regime\u2026 I think he\u2019s one of those voices. I think there\u2019s other voices as well. But let\u2019s step back and think about what happens with Iran. destabilizing the world. The Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, these are all proxies of Iran. And imagine for a moment what a world would be like with this regime gone and the people of Iran who generally are pro-America back in charge again. We saw that prior to 1979. I remember those days when Iran was very different. 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