Elon Musk and Tim Cook among CEOs joining Trump on China trip

President Donald Trump is traveling to China with a delegation of 17 top US executives, including Apple's Tim Cook and Tesla's Elon Musk, for a high-stakes meeting with President Xi Jinping [1]. The delegation, which includes leaders from Meta, Visa, Boeing, and BlackRock, represents a broad swath of US business interests during a period of economic and technological tension between the two nations [1]. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company is central to the chip rivalry, was a late addition, boarding Air Force One in Alaska after an initial absence [1]. Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology, is also attending despite Beijing's 2023 restrictions on some of his firm's chips in critical infrastructure [1]. The visit is the first by a US president in nearly a decade and tests a fragile trade truce established after a tariff war [1]. Looming over the summit is the US and Israel's war in Iran, with Trump expected to push China to help facilitate an agreement to end the conflict [1].