Trump Invites Musk, Cook, Fink and Dozen More CEOs to Join China Summit With Xi

President Donald Trump has invited more than a dozen top U.S. corporate executives — including Tesla's Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, and BlackRock's Larry Fink — to accompany him on a trip to China later this week for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to a White House official.

Trump is scheduled to meet with Xi on Thursday and Friday in Beijing, where he has said he hopes to finalize a series of business deals and purchase agreements with China.

Also expected to travel with the presidential delegation are Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, Cargill's Brian Sikes, Citigroup's Jane Fraser, Cisco's Chuck Robbins, Coherent's Jim Anderson, GE Aerospace's H. Lawrence Culp Jr., Goldman Sachs's David Solomon, Illumina's Jacob Thaysen, Mastercard's Michael Miebach, Meta Platforms executive Dina Powell McCormick, Micron Technology's Sanjay Mehrotra, Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon, and Visa's Ryan McInerney, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the list had not been formally announced.

The breadth of the business delegation underscores the commercial stakes attached to the summit, which is expected to cover trade, artificial intelligence, export controls, Taiwan, and the Iran war.

Both governments are entering the meetings after weeks of escalating tensions over AI technology, sanctions, and rare earth exports — issues that have direct implications for several of the companies represented in the delegation.

Musk's Tesla and Sanjay Mehrotra's Micron Technology, for instance, have significant manufacturing and sales exposure in China, while Qualcomm and Cisco derive substantial portions of their revenue from Chinese customers and supply chains. Apple's Cook has repeatedly navigated the company's dependence on Chinese assembly partners amid shifting U.S.-China trade policy.

The inclusion of financial heavyweights such as Fink of BlackRock and Solomon of Goldman Sachs signals that capital flows and investment access are also likely to feature in the bilateral discussions, reflecting the full-spectrum economic scope the Trump administration appears to be pursuing.

The summit comes amid a broader recalibration of U.S.-China relations that has drawn in technology policy, national security restrictions, and multilateral trade frameworks simultaneously — making the involvement of tech, defense, agriculture, and finance executives at a single diplomatic gathering notable in scope.

No formal agenda has been released by either government, and the White House official declined to provide additional detail on the structure of the business meetings or whether individual executives would have separate sessions with Chinese counterparts.

Whether the talks produce signed agreements or remain exploratory is likely to shape how markets and policymakers assess the trajectory of U.S.-China relations heading into the second half of 2026.

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