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From Elon Musk to Tim Cook/ Who are the CEOs accompanying Trump on his trip to China?

2026-05-13 07:41:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

From Elon Musk to Tim Cook/ Who are the CEOs accompanying Trump on his trip to

US President Donald Trump will be accompanied by a host of top business and technology industry leaders during his trip to China this week.

Among those who will join the president on his official trip to Beijing are Apple's Tim Cook, Tesla and SpaceX's Elon Musk, BlackRock's Larry Fink, as well as other executives from Meta, Visa, JP Morgan, Boeing, Cargill and others.

In total, 17 American leaders will join Trump on the trip. The trip is seen as important for the US, as Trump will meet with President Xi Jinping at a time of growing economic and technological hostility between the two countries.

The full list of leaders who will join Trump as part of the official US delegation to China:

· Dina Powell McCormick, president and vice president of Meta

· Kelly Ortberg, president and CEO of Boeing

· Ryan McInerney, Visa CEO

· Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone

· Brian Sikes, CEO and chairman of Cargill

· Jane Fraser, executive director of Citi

· Jim Anderson, CEO of Coherent

· Henry Lawrence Culp, CEO of GE Aerospace

· David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs

· Jacob Thaysen, CEO of Illumina

· Michael Miebach, president of Mastercard

Missing from the list is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company is central to the US-China rivalry over computer chips and artificial intelligence (AI). But in a surprise development, Huang was spotted boarding Beijing-bound Air Force One as it refueled in Anchorage, Alaska.

"Jensen is attending the summit at the invitation of President Trump to support America and the administration's goals ," an Nvidia spokesperson told the BBC.

It's also worth noting that Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology, will be part of Trump's delegation. His presence is interesting, as Beijing restricted the use of some Micron chips in critical infrastructure in 2023 on national security grounds — a move the firm has said has negatively impacted its business in China.

Semiconductors remain essential to the US-China economic relationship, despite ongoing tensions over technology and export controls.

Trump's visit to China will be the first by a US president in nearly a decade and marks a key test of a fragile trade truce between the two countries, after a tit-for-tat trade war that saw them impose tariffs that at times reached 100%. The tariffs were suspended in October 2025 after Trump's last meeting with Xi, which took place in South Korea. A key aspect of the upcoming meeting will be the US-Israeli war in Iran, which has already forced a postponement of the Trump-Xi meeting.

Trump is expected to push China, which relies on Iran for cheap oil, to help facilitate a deal between Tehran and Washington to end the war. China also wants the conflict to end. It has restricted its own oil supplies, hitting the purchasing power of other countries around the world that import Chinese goods. But China's vast oil reserves and diversified energy supply have helped it so far weather the war's aftermath better than many of its neighbors. /CNA