US President Donald Trump is expected to bring a host of top business and technology industry executives on his trip to China this week.
Among those set to join the president on his official trip to Beijing are Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Larry Fink of BlackRock, as well as other executives from Meta, Visa, JP Morgan, Boeing, Cargill and more.
In total, 17 US executives will join Trump on the trip, a White House official with knowledge of the plans told the BBC.
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 animosity between the two countries.
In addition to Musk, Cook and Fink, the full list of the executives set to join Trump as part of the official US delegation to China is as follows:
* Dina Powell McCormick, president and vice chair of Meta
* Kelly Ortberg, president and chief executive of Boeing
* Ryan McInerney, chief executive of Visa
* Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone
* Brian Sikes, chief executive and chairman of Cargill
* Jane Fraser, chief executive of Citi
* Chuck Robbins, chief executive and chairman of Cisco
* Jim Anderson, chief executive of Coherent
* Henry Lawrence Culp, chief executive of GE Aerospace
* David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs
* Jacob Thaysen, chief executive of Illumina
* Michael Miebach, president of Mastercard
Together, the executives represent a swath of US business interests, from social media and consumer hardware, to computer chips and commercial manufacturing.
By BBC News
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