“Just a week before President Donald Trump is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Shenzhen, a burgeoning espionage scandal is exposing a contradiction at the center of his approach to America’s chief military and economic rival,” the Washington Post reports.“Throughout his second term, Trump has repeatedly warned that the United States cannot afford to fall behind China in the race for artificial intelligence, invoking the threat from Beijing to justify opposition to regulation of the rapidly advancing technology. Yet he has approved the sale of advanced technology to China that hawks in his administration argued could help Beijing close the technological gap with the United States.”