President Trump has invited several executives, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, to join his trip to China this week.
President Trump Lands in Beijing This Week for Most Loaded U.S.-China Summit in a Generation
Altogether, Trump plans to bring more than a dozen prominent business and technology executives to Beijing.
Trump will arrive in China on Wednesday.
According to NewsNation correspondent Kellie Meyer, the group includes the following:
- Apple (Tim Cook)
- Blackrock (Larry Fink)
- Blackstone (Stephen Schwarzman)
- Boeing (Kelly Ortberg)
- Cargill (Brian Sikes)
- Citi (Jane Fraser)
- Cisco (Chuck Robbins)
- Coherent (Jim Anderson)
- GE Aerospace (H Lawrence Culp)
- Goldman Sachs (David Solomon)
- Illumina (Jacob Thaysen)
- Mastercard (Michael Miebach)
- Meta (Dina Powell McCormick)
- Micron (Sanjay Mehrotra)
- Qualcomm (Christiano Amon)
- Tesla / SpaceX (Elon Musk)
- Visa (Ryan McInerney)
✈️ Apple, Boeing, Musk and more traveling with President Trump to China, a White House official tells me and @LibbeyDean_ @NewsNation
First reported by @davidshepardson @Reuters
• The following CEOs will be traveling to China with the US delegation:
o… https://t.co/BKUWjPXWRh— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) May 11, 2026
CNBC noted:
The executives will join Trump on the trip during which he has said he hopes to secure a series of business deals and purchase agreements with Beijing.
ADVERTISEMENTThe summit agenda is expected to cover trade, artificial intelligence, export controls, Taiwan and the Iran war, with both sides entering the talks after weeks of escalating tensions.
Trump's trip this week will be his first time in China since 2017.
President Trump will return to China this week for the first time since 2017.
Beijing is a far more powerful, confident seat of global power than a decade ago — with a seasoned leader, Xi Jinping, who now understands Trump weaponizes unpredictability. https://t.co/Ei0V3l4xPn
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 11, 2026
"In advance of @POTUS' historic summit with President Xi in Beijing, I will depart on Monday for a quick series of meetings in both Japan and South Korea. On Tuesday, I will meet in Tokyo with Prime Minister @takaichi_sanae, Finance Minister @satsukikatayama, and other government and private sector representatives for discussions on the U.S.-Japan economic relationship," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
"On Wednesday, I will stop in Seoul for a discussion with Vice Premier He Lifeng of China, before continuing on to Beijing for the Leaders’ Summit between President Trump and President Xi. Economic security is national security, and I look forward to a productive series of engagements as we work to advance President Trump’s America First Economic Agenda," he continued.
In advance of @POTUS' historic summit with President Xi in Beijing, I will depart on Monday for a quick series of meetings in both Japan and South Korea.
On Tuesday, I will meet in Tokyo with Prime Minister @takaichi_sanae, Finance Minister @satsukikatayama, and other government…
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) May 10, 2026
The Hill has more:
Trump similarly brought along a contingent of business leaders to his trip to Saudi Arabia last May. Some of the executives traveling to Beijing also made the trip to Riyadh, including Musk, Schwarzman, Fink, Fraser, Ortberg and Powell McCormick.
The Beijing trip, which was originally scheduled for early April, was postponed amid the U.S. war with Iran. As Washington and Tehran struggle to reach a lasting deal, the conflict threatens to weigh on Trump amid the high-stakes meeting.
