# 9月23日（水）高市首相 トランプ氏と23日未明会談へ、習近平氏 幻の11年ぶり国連演説 - Show: ながら日経 - Published: 2026-09-22 - Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1627014612_3c8ac37a779e.html - Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NRBC2416769927.mp3 - Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary. This episode of 'Nagara Nikkei' covers Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's meeting with President Trump ahead of the planned September 24 US-China summit, and how Xi Jinping's rumored UN speech never materialized. It also covers Google's new AI laptop, Anthropic's finding on China's Kimi AI, Chugai Pharmaceutical's expanded capex, and NEC's undersea cable project. ## What this episode answers ### When and where will Prime Minister Takaichi meet with President Trump? She meets him in New York on the 22nd (framed in the episode as "the early hours of the 23rd" Japan time), ahead of the planned US-China summit on the 24th. ### Why did Xi Jinping's UN speech plan turn into a non-event? Xi Jinping's UN speech plan never happened; while his US trip and meeting with Trump at the White House on the 24th went ahead, the episode reads the dropped UN appearance as a sign of China's cautious, deliberate approach to the US relationship. ### What is the starting price of Google's new AI laptop? It starts at around 140,000 yen. ### What kind of misuse did Anthropic identify? Anthropic found that China's AI model "Kimi" was forwarding user queries to Claude and presenting Claude's answers as its own, apparently to harvest the exchanges as training data. ### Why is Chugai Pharmaceutical sharply increasing its capital spending? Persistently elevated outsourcing and material costs are pushing it to build more in-house capacity to control costs as it expands its drug pipeline. ## Article ## Japan Positions Itself Ahead of the US-China Summit Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets President Trump in New York on the 22nd. Ahead of the US-China summit planned for the 24th, she is expected to convey Japan's position on concerns such as China's military activity around the Taiwan Strait and economic security. The program frames this as a meeting "in the early hours of the 23rd," reflecting the time difference with Japan. ## Xi Jinping's UN Speech Plan Turns Into a Non-Event China's foreign ministry announced on the 21st that President Xi Jinping will visit Washington from the 23rd to the 25th, meeting Trump at the White House on the 24th. A plan that had surfaced for Xi to also address the UN General Assembly in New York around that trip never happened. The episode reads this as a sign of China's cautious, deliberate approach to the US relationship. ## AI and Tech Industry Maneuvers Google announced on the 21st a new laptop built specifically around AI features, starting at around 140,000 yen, with deeper integration with smartphones running its own OS — expanding into a broader price range to compete with Apple and Microsoft. Separately, Anthropic reported a new case of misuse by a Chinese company: China's AI model "Kimi" was found forwarding user queries to Anthropic's Claude and presenting Claude's answers as its own, apparently to harvest the exchanges as training data to improve its own performance. ## Pharma and Telecom: Capex and Overseas Expansion Chugai Pharmaceutical will raise annual capital spending to roughly 100 billion yen by the fiscal year ending December 2028 — about 50% above the 68 billion yen planned for the year ending December 2026, and a record high. Persistently elevated outsourcing and material costs are pushing the company to build more in-house capacity to control costs as it expands its drug pipeline. NEC announced on the 22nd that it will join Meta's planned submarine fiber-optic cable project between the US and France, handling overall system design and construction, with Sumitomo Electric Industries supplying the fiber. Operations are targeted to begin in 2029, in response to growing telecom demand. ## Fujii's First Visit to Rokko Mountain Ranch In the closing segment, host Mirika Fujii shared a personal story from the final day of the Silver Week holidays. Having returned to her hometown in the Kansai region for an emcee job, she visited Rokko Mountain Ranch on Mt. Rokko — the mountain famous for the Hanshin Tigers' fight song "Rokko Oroshi" — for the first time, despite living nearby from junior high through university and seeing the mountain daily. The ranch was full of free-roaming sheep, goats, cattle, and horses; the sheep in particular grazed so close that she felt like a visitor stepping into their space rather than the other way around. She tried talking to them, but they simply kept grazing and ignored her. Having dressed for a forecast near 30°C in a sleeveless top, she found the day already turning autumn-cool and regretted not bringing something to layer on. ## Takeaways - PM Takaichi meets Trump on the 22nd to convey Japan's position ahead of the September 24 US-China summit. - A rumored UN speech by Xi Jinping during his Washington trip never materialized, reflecting China's cautious US posture. - Anthropic found that China's Kimi AI was relaying user queries to Claude and passing off the answers as its own.