Elon Musk Rejoins Trump For High-Stakes China Summit With Xi Jinping
Elon Musk is set to travel to China later this week alongside President Trump as part of a major American business delegation meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid escalating trade and economic negotiations.
The trip will also include some of the most powerful executives in finance, technology and manufacturing, including Tim Cook, Larry Fink and Kelly Ortberg.
A White House official confirmed that executives from Apple, Meta, Boeing, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard and several other major corporations will participate in the delegation as Trump attempts to strengthen economic ties while pushing China to increase purchases of American goods and investment.
The summit comes at a critical moment for US-China relations as the Trump administration continues efforts to rebalance trade and expand American manufacturing exports.
Trump is reportedly seeking commitments from Beijing involving aircraft purchases, agricultural imports such as soybeans and broader investment into the United States economy.
One of the most closely watched developments surrounding the trip is the continued reconciliation between Trump and Elon Musk following their highly publicized falling out in 2025.
The relationship between the two men fractured dramatically after Musk publicly criticized Trump and called for his impeachment while Trump threatened to strip Musk of government influence and floated the idea of deportation.
Since then, however, the billionaire entrepreneur and the president have gradually repaired ties, with Musk reappearing at White House events tied to SpaceX and other technology initiatives.
Musk played a major role in Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and later became the public face of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, where he spearheaded aggressive efforts to shrink the federal workforce.
The feud between the pair intensified after Trump withdrew Musk ally Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator before later renominating him amid improving relations between the two camps.
Notably absent from the China trip is Jensen Huang, whose company has become central to the global artificial intelligence boom due to its advanced chip technology.
According to the White House, the delegation traveling to China includes executives from:
• Apple
• BlackRock
• Blackstone
• Boeing
• Cargill
• Citigroup
• GE Aerospace
• Goldman Sachs
• Mastercard
• Meta
• Micron Technology
• Qualcomm
• Tesla
• SpaceX
• Visa
The visit is expected to be one of the most significant US-China diplomatic and economic meetings of Trump’s second term.