{"id":664802,"date":"2026-05-11T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664802\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:14:12","slug":"apples-tim-cook-and-teslas-elon-musk-among-top-us-ceos-to-accompany-trump-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664802\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk among top US CEOs to accompany Trump to China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 says.<\/p>\n

Beijing said it was ready to work with the US to pursue “more stability” and confirmed that Mr Trump will visit, the first US president to do so since 2017.<\/p>\n

Washington and Beijing have been at loggerheads over key issues ranging from trade tariffs to the Iran war to Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory.<\/p>\n

While in Beijing, Mr Trump will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with the countries’ myriad trade and economic issues on the table.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump and President Xi agreed in October to a one-year truce in a blistering trade war that saw tariffs on many goods exceed 100 per cent.<\/p>\n

The US president has been pressuring companies to build manufacturing facilities in the United States, a bid to both reduce imports and increase domestic economic activity.<\/p>\n

Trump and Xi’s AI talks will be critical for humanity<\/a><\/p>\n

When Trump last visited China in 2017, artificial intelligence was not yet the centre of global power. Now it is.<\/p>\n

Many top tech companies’ supply chains, however, are heavily dependent on China, making them particularly exposed to bilateral trade tensions.<\/p>\n

The United States has also sought to block China from accessing the highest-end artificial intelligence chips from US companies.<\/p>\n

According to a list shared by a White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, Mr Musk and Mr Cook will be accompanied by 15 other chief executive officers.<\/p>\n

\"Tim<\/p>\n

Tim Cook will be among the top executive’s who are attending the trip to China with Donald Trump. (AP: Apple)<\/p>\n

They include the chiefs of Boeing, GE Aerospace, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard and Visa.<\/p>\n

Among the tech companies, top executives from Cisco, Meta, Micron and Qualcomm will also be on the trip, the official said.<\/p>\n

Mr 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.<\/p>\n

The two had a public falling out in July last year, but appear to have since reconciled, with Mr Musk reappearing in White House circles.<\/p>\n

AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top US executives, including Tesla’s Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook, will accompany US President Donald Trump on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,15595,99,512,10343,321068,2490,3120,36753,576,10649,100796,19542,9731],"class_list":["post-664802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-billionaires","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","tag-dealerships","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-tim-cook","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-visit","tag-white-house","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}