Musk & Nvidia CEO Join Trump on High-Stakes China Trip

US President Donald Trump has brought along a number of top business and technology industry executives on his visit to China this week.

Among those accompanying the President on his official visit to Beijing are Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Apple’s Tim Cook, Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, as well as executives from Meta, Visa, JP Morgan, Boeing, Cargill, and other companies.

This trip is considered significant for the US, as Trump is meeting with President Xi Jinping at a time when economic and technological tensions between the two nations are escalating.

Huang’s inclusion in this group—albeit a later addition—is particularly noteworthy, given that Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips lie at the very heart of the rivalry between the US and China.

Along with other business leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Oracle boss Larry Ellison, Huang also serves on Trump’s science and technology advisory council.

It is also worth noting that Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra will be part of Trump’s delegation.

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His presence is intriguing, as Beijing had banned the use of certain Micron chips in critical infrastructure in 2023 on national security grounds—a move the company stated had a detrimental impact on its business operations in China.

Despite ongoing tensions regarding technology and export controls, semiconductors remain central to US-China economic relations.

According to a company spokesperson, Cisco Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins was invited to join the trip, "but is unable to attend due to earnings-related commitments." Together, these executives represent a broad spectrum of U.S. business interests—ranging from social media and consumer hardware to computer chips and commercial manufacturing.

A spokesperson for Illumina, a California-based biotechnology company, stated that Thyssen "feels honored to be part of the delegation," and the company hopes that this visit "will serve as an opportunity to strengthen ties and shape the future of precision medicine."

Representatives from other companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The original list did not include the name of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company sits at the epicenter of the U.S.-China rivalry over computer chips and AI. However, in a surprising turn of events, Huang boarded Air Force One—bound for Beijing—when the aircraft stopped in Anchorage, Alaska, to refuel.

"Jensen is joining this summit at President Trump's invitation to support America and the administration's objectives."

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Trump's visit to China will mark the first such visit by a U.S. president in nearly a decade, and it is expected to serve as a critical test of the delicate trade truce currently in place between the two nations. This truce follows a tit-for-tat trade war in which both countries imposed tariffs that, at times, exceeded 100%.

These tariffs were suspended following the previous meeting between Trump and Xi in South Korea in October 2025.

The upcoming meeting will remain overshadowed by the ongoing conflict involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran—a conflict that has already caused the meeting between Trump and Xi to be postponed once before. It is expected that Trump will pressure China—which relies on Iran for cheap oil—to help broker an agreement between Tehran and Washington to end this conflict.

China, too, wants this conflict to end. It has curtailed oil supplies to the country, which has impacted the purchasing power of other nations worldwide that import goods from China.


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