Top US executives, including Tesla’s Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook, will accompany US President Donald Trump on his visit to China this week, a White House official has said.
According to a list shared by a White House official on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity, Musk and Cook will be accompanied by 15 other chief executive officers.
They include the chiefs of Boeing, GE Aerospace, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard and Visa.
Among tech companies, top executives from Cisco, Meta, Micron and Qualcomm will be on the trip, the official said.
Musk, the richest person in the world, heavily backed Trump on the campaign trail for his second term as US president, contributing more than $280 million.
The two had a public falling out in July last year, but appear to have since reconciled, with Musk reappearing in White House circles.
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Beijing has said it is ready to work with the United States in pursuit of “more stability” and confirmed that Trump will visit, the first US president to do so since 2017. His trip runs from Wednesday to Friday.
Washington and Beijing have been at loggerheads over key issues ranging from trade tariffs to the US-Israeli war on Iran to Taiwan, which China says is part of its territory.
The ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is also expected to feature prominently in discussions between the two leaders.
Before the war, the strategic waterway handled about 25 percent of global oil trade, 20 percent of liquefied natural gas shipments and 30 percent of global fertiliser trade.
