Trump invites Musk and Cook to join trip to China, Bloomberg reports

A White House official said the delegation meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping will include Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Larry Fink, and Kelly Ortberg.

According to the agency, top executives from Blackstone, Cargill, Citigroup, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Meta Platforms, Micron Technology, Qualcomm, and Visa will also take part in the talks.

The US president believes the presence of business representatives at the meeting will help secure a series of commercial deals and procurement agreements with Beijing.

Bloomberg noted that shares of Tesla jumped 1.3%, recovering losses of about 2.7% recorded earlier in the trading session, while shares of Coherent continued to rise. Shares of Illumina, GE Aerospace, Boeing, Cisco, Visa, Mastercard, and Apple reached session highs following the White House announcement.

Trump’s visit to China

In October 2025, Donald Trump had already held talks with Xi Jinping. Afterward, he announced that another meeting would take place in April 2026.

Politico wrote that Taiwan could become one of the key topics of the negotiations. However, the United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran at the end of February, which changed the timing of the visit.

Sources told the outlet that Trump would not travel until the active phase of the war with Iran had ended.

Later, the White House officially confirmed that the meeting had been postponed until mid-May because of the war with Iran.

Notably, on May 11, China’s Foreign Ministry officially confirmed that the US president will pay a state visit to China at Xi Jinping’s invitation from May 13 to 15.