US Vice President JD Vance departed from a dinner of heads of state on Monday night when Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing “began praising trade and the UN,” The Telegraph reported, citing a reporter present.
Dominique Seux, the only French journalist at the dinner at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Monday night, said that the US vice president clearly perceived Guoqing’s speech as “pure anti-Trumpism.”
The incident preceded Vance’s address at the AI Action summit in the French capital on February 11th, where he cautioned both European allies and rivals like China against “over-regulation” of AI and tightening government control.
Vance also criticized content moderation, labeling it “authoritarian censorship.”
Addressing a room filled with senior politicians, including French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vance indicated that the United States intends to…
