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Posted on 05/13/2026 5:46:46 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
President Trump arrived in China alongside a delegation of billionaire U.S. executives, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, underscoring the high stakes for American companies as Washington and Beijing negotiate over trade, artificial intelligence and the Iran war.
The executives — whose combined net worth approaches $1 trillion — lead companies with major business interests in China, despite years of trade disputes between the world's two largest economies…
Filmmaker Brett Ratner, who directed the documentary "Melania," was also on the flight.
Additional U.S. business leaders who are traveling to Beijing include Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, with a net worth of $47.5 billion, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose fortune stands at $2.9 billion.
Other executives expected to attend include Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Meta President and Vice Chair Dina Powell McCormick, according to The Associated Press.
Nvidia makes chips that are helping fuel the AI boom, and Huang and other executives view the trip as an opportunity to strengthen ties in the Chinese market.
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Look at the delegation he assembled for China:
• Elon Musk - Tesla / SpaceX
• Tim Cook - Apple
• Jensen Huang - Nvidia
• Larry Fink - BlackRock
• Stephen Schwarzman - Blackstone
• David Solomon - Goldman Sachs
• Jane Fraser - Citigroup
• Kelly Ortberg - Boeing
• H. Lawrence Culp Jr. - GE Aerospace
• Brian Sikes - Cargill
• Cristiano Amon - Qualcomm
• Sanjay Mehrotra - Micron Technology
• Ryan McInerney - Visa
• Michael Miebach - Mastercard
• Dina Powell McCormick - Meta
This is not diplomacy.
This is strategic market penetration.
Ho-lee [expletive deleted].
Tensions with Xi over Taiwan, over the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, trade embargoes, tariffs and other critical concerns might seem to dissipate when one party brings money to the table.
One thing Trump knows very very well and that is business. Good on him for taking these leaders.
Good thing none of them are globalist depopulationists.
This is not diplomacy.
This is strategic market penetration.
I’m sure there’s a reason, but I don’t get it.
LOL, Elon Musk is worth over $800 BILLION all by himself.
And WHAT exactly is CBS implying? I'VE NEVER MET ANYONE WHO WAS HIRED BY A POOR PERSON !!!!
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS !!!!
Fair to suggest that President Trump will tell the Chicoms to back off sending weapons to Iran along with the satellite data if they want 10¢ of our technology and business.
In China? This stinks.
Hannity was in that flight as well. He talked about a conversation he had with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The company started as a business meeting between 3 people at a Denny’s in California. The man came from a dirt poor family.
Jobs for Chinese
What an impressive group of CEOs. Well see how this plays out.
This amazing transformation is the result of Lee Kuan Yew. He was first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. He profoundly influenced China’s modernization by providing a model for combining authoritarian governance with market-driven economic reforms. Deng Xiaoping famously championed studying Singapore’s success, leading to decades of Chinese officials visiting Singapore for training in areas like urban planning, anti-corruption, and public administration.
The sad thing is for a lot of American towns and cities, the photos would be in reverse. The heyday was 1980, and 2025 wouldn’t even be back to nature, just straight up decay and dilapidation.
I thought we were opposed to communism. And I thought we were upset with what Black Rock has been doing in our country.
Doesn’t China have nuclear weaponry?
MAGA ( not )
China is more capitalist than we are. They laugh at our college communists.
It depends. If the state has been run by RATs for decades, like Detroit, expect nothing but crime and decay. If it is run by good Republicans, like Florida, it is booming.
Yeah, the lessons on anti-corruption didn’t take.
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