Washington | US President Donald Trump loves a good name-change: under his watch, the Gulf of Mexico has become the “Gulf of America”, Lake Ontario, “Lake America” and the Department of Defence the “Department of War”.

However, it appears his latest fiddle with nomenclature – calling “artificial intelligence” “super intelligence” – hasn’t caught on, or at least not with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

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