Chief executives to accompany Trump to China – Inquirer.com
Trump is slated to depart Washington on Tuesday and hold meetings with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, later in the week.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will be joined in China this week by 16 CEOs, including Elon Musk and Tim Cook.
The White House distributed a list Monday of business leaders who are scheduled to be in Beijing with the president. Trump is slated to depart Washington on Tuesday and hold meetings with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, later in the week.
After the White House sent out its list, Cisco said its CEO, Chuck Robbins, was unable to attend.
The inclusion of Musk in the delegation is the latest sign that the world’s richest man has restored his relationship with the president. Musk served as a top adviser to Trump and oversaw the administration’s effort to overhaul the federal bureaucracy. He departed the administration last May after a falling-out with the president, but the two men have rehabilitated their relationship in recent months.
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, wasn’t invited and won’t be going to China this week, according to a person familiar with Huang’s plans. His absence comes as Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, awaits approval from both China and the United States to begin shipping an early model of the company’s AI chips, the H200, to China.
U.S. officials have said Trump wants to discuss the creation of a board of investment and a board of trade with China, and the delegation includes business leaders across a wide range of industries.
The delegation list:
Tim Cook of Apple
Larry Fink of BlackRock
Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone
Kelly Ortberg of Boeing
Brian Sikes of Cargill
Jane Fraser of Citi
Jim Anderson of Coherent
Larry Culp of GE Aerospace
David Solomon of Goldman Sachs
Jacob Thaysen of Illumina
Michael Miebach of Mastercard
Dina Powell McCormick of Meta
Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron
Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm
Elon Musk of Tesla
Ryan McInerney of Visa
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.