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Trump Bound for China with 17 CEOs
(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump will embark on a high-stakes visit to China this week, flanked by 17 of America's most powerful corporate leaders, a White House official confirmed Monday.
Trump is due to depart Washington on Tuesday before sitting down with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing later in the week — a meeting that carries significant weight as both economic superpowers navigate a tense and complex relationship.
The White House confirmed in a background statement that the business delegation will be headlined by Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk. Accompanying them are senior executives drawn from a cross-section of America's most influential industries, spanning finance, technology, defense, agriculture, and healthcare — including BlackRock, Blackstone, Boeing, Cargill, Citi, Cisco, Coherent, General Electric (GE) Aerospace, Goldman Sachs, Illumina, Mastercard, Meta, Micron, Qualcomm, and Visa.
The full roster of executives traveling with the president includes Larry Fink of BlackRock, Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, Brian Sikes of Cargill, Jane Fraser of Citi, Chuck Robbins of Cisco, Jim Anderson of Coherent, H. Lawrence 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, and Ryan McInerney of Visa.
Notably, Cisco's Robbins had earlier been reported as withdrawing from the trip. The revised White House statement put those reports to rest, confirming he will join the delegation.
Sources within the administration have indicated that Trump is pursuing the Beijing trip with a clear economic agenda — specifically, exploring new structural frameworks for US-China engagement, including the possible establishment of investment and trade-focused bilateral boards designed to institutionalize deeper economic cooperation between the world's two largest economies.
The visit marks one of the most consequential diplomatic and commercial overtures between Washington and Beijing in recent years, unfolding against a backdrop of fierce strategic rivalry and mounting pressure on both sides to prevent further economic decoupling.
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