{"id":6163,"date":"2026-05-12T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:59:15","slug":"elon-musk-tim-cook-and-larry-fink-expected-to-join-trumps-entourage-to-beijing-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6163","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, Tim Cook and Larry Fink expected to join Trump’s entourage to Beijing this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prominent U.S. executives from Big Tech to agriculture have been invited to join President Donald Trump on his trip to China this week, according to a White House official.<\/p>\n

Trump leaves\u00a0on Tuesday for\u00a0Beijing to meet\u00a0with President\u00a0Xi Jinping. Aside from discussions about Iran, the two leaders are expected to discuss\u00a0trade\u00a0and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at some of the executives according to the White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk<\/p>\n

Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, led Trump\u2019s\u00a0Department of Government Efficiency\u00a0until leaving in the spring of 2025 before the\u00a0controversial pop-up agency\u00a0was shuttered in November. The billionaire, who also owns the social media platform X,\u00a0feuded\u00a0with Trump last summer in a\u00a0war of words\u00a0that included Musk claiming without evidence that the government was concealing information about the president\u2019s association with\u00a0infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Musk eventually said that he regretted some of his posts on X about Trump.<\/p>\n

Since then, Musk has refocused his energy on\u00a0Tesla\u00a0and his other companies. Tesla has\u00a0operations in China\u00a0and Musk has visited there. He\u2019s also been dealing with French prosecutors\u00a0seeking charges\u00a0against him and X for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform\u2019s artificial intelligence system, Grok. There\u2019s also\u00a0trial\u00a0pitting Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.<\/p>\n

Tim Cook<\/p>\n

Cook remains busy as his\u00a0tenure\u00a0at Apple winds down. The CEO announced last month that his 15-year reign as the head of the technology company will come to an end on Sept. 1, when he turns the CEO duties over to Apple\u2019s head of hardware engineering, John Ternus. During Cook\u2019s years as the top executive, Apple saw the its market value soar by more than $3.6 trillion during an iPhone-fueled\u00a0era of prosperity. Cook will remain with the company as executive chairman.<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s reliance on overseas manufacturing required Cook to master the art of political diplomacy, particularly while Trump waged trade wars with China during both his terms in the White House. After persuading Trump to exempt the iPhone and other products from Trump\u2019s first-term tariffs, he faced a more daunting challenge during the current administration.<\/p>\n

While insisting that\u00a0Apple shift its iPhone manufacturing from China to the U.S., Trump imposed some tariffs on the device this time around. But Cook still managed to minimize the fees by shifting the production of iPhones destined for the U.S. market to India and also winning some exemptions after promising Apple would invest $600 billion in the U.S. during Trump\u2019s second administration.<\/p>\n

Kelly Ortberg<\/p>\n

Robert \u201cKelly\u201d Ortberg, a former CEO at aerospace manufacturer Rockwell Collins, became CEO of Boeing in 2024. He\u2019s spent time focusing on Boeing\u2019s recovery, as the aerospace company was dealing with legal, regulatory and production problems and mounting\u00a0financial repercussions\u00a0when he took over.<\/p>\n

A year ago\u00a0Ortberg\u00a0said that he didn\u2019t expect the U.S.\u00a0trade war with China\u00a0to forestall Boeing\u2019s financial recovery, nor prevent it from reaching aircraft delivery targets with Chinese airlines that were refusing to accept its planes. Beijing increased its import tax on\u00a0American goods to 125%\u00a0in April 2025 in retaliation for Trump raising the tariff on products\u00a0made in China to 145%. China\u2019s tariff would more than double the cost of passenger jets that Boeing, the U.S.\u2019 largest exporter, sells for tens of millions of dollars. But Beijing is less of a threat to Boeing now that it used to be, as it has started to send fewer of its finished planes there over time.<\/p>\n

Boeing has been in\u00a0ongoing talks\u00a0with China over a possible large aircraft sale.<\/p>\n

Who else is going<\/p>\n

Blackrock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink<\/p>\n

Blackstone Chairman, CEO and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman<\/p>\n

Cargill Chairman and CEO Brian Sikes<\/p>\n

Citi Chairman and CEO Jane Fraser<\/p>\n

Coherent CEO Jim Anderson<\/p>\n

GE Aerospace Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp<\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon<\/p>\n

Illumina CEO Jacob Thaysen<\/p>\n

Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach<\/p>\n

Meta President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick<\/p>\n

Micron Chairman, President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra<\/p>\n

Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon<\/p>\n

Visa CEO Ryan McInerney<\/p>\n

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Aamer Madhani in Washington D.C. contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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