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Xi will headline the World AI Conference for the first time

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What happened: On July 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) announced Xi Jinping will attend the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai and deliver a keynote.

This will be his first in-person appearance since the event launched in 2018.

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