“This is money that normally would have gone to China,” Trump proclaimed on Tuesday while unveiling Stargate, an artificial intelligence project that will cost $500 billion, according to its participants OpenAI, Softbank, Oracle and MGX. It was another indication that keeping ahead of Beijing on AI is a priority of the Trump administration. But in his bid to save TikTok, the video app that was briefly banned in the US under a law that came into effect the day before Trump entered office, the president appears much more relaxed about China.