US offers China a system of mutual alerts on dangerous SI incidents, with Trump and Xi to decide at the summit
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The two main SI powers are talking, for the first time at government level, about a "hotline" for SI, as once existed for nuclear weapons.
At talks in New York on Sunday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng discussed a new US-China dialogue on SI. The US proposed a "notification mechanism" for SI incidents that reach the level of a national security threat, so that the two sides warn each other; Trump and Xi are to give it final consideration at the summit on Thursday. "Moving from opacity to more transparency between the No. 1 and No. 2 SI powers is very important," Bessent said. The Chinese side was restrained: in Xinhua's report SI is mentioned only as one of the topics discussed.
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