Elon Musk and other CEOs among Trump's delegation heading to China

Washington — Billionaire and erstwhile Trump medication authoritative Elon Musk volition beryllium among the high-powered concern leaders who volition beryllium a portion of the U.S. delegation to China this week, according to a database of names from a White House official. 

President Trump is gathering Chinese President Xi Jinping successful Beijing for a high-stakes gathering arsenic uncertainty implicit the warfare with Iran roils planetary lipid markets and proviso chains. Musk and different concern leaders successful the U.S. delegation person important concern interests successful China. 

Others successful the delegation include:

• Apple's Tim Cook
  
• BlackRock's Larry Fink
  
• Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman
  
• Boeing's Kelly Ortberg
  
• Goldman Sachs' David Solomon
  
• Meta's Dina Powell McCormick
  
• Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra 
  
• Qualcomm's Christiano Amon
  
• Illumina's Jacob Thaysen
  
• Mastercard's Michael Miebach
  
• Visa's Ryan McInerney
  
• Cargill's Brian Sikes
  
• Citi's Jane Fraser
  
• Cisco's Chuck Robbins
  
• Coherent's Jim Anderson 
  
• GE Aerospace's H. Lawrence Culp
  

Mr. Trump connected Monday said helium plans to speech astir economical and vigor matters. 

"I person a large narration with President Xi," the president told reporters successful the Oval Office. "We're doing a batch of business, but it's astute business. We utilized to beryllium taken vantage of for years with our erstwhile presidents. And present we're doing large with China. We marque a batch of wealth with China."

The president delayed his travel to China owed to the warfare with Iran. On Monday, Mr. Trump blasted the Iranians' response to a U.S. connection to bring the warfare to an end, calling it "unacceptable" and "garbage." He besides said the ongoing ceasefire is "unbelievably weak" and "on beingness support." 

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