WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump is bringing a delegation of business executives when he travels to China for a summit with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, White House officials confirmed on Monday.
Leaders representing aerospace, agriculture, finance, tech, and other industries will sit in on bilateral discussions related to tariffs, trade deals, technology export regulations, and other issues regarding the two nations’ business dealings.
Expectations are for some series of announcements during the trip of new purchase orders for airplanes and other goods made in America, improved access to technology and semiconductors, and financial agreements to facilitate transactions.
Tech and aerospace entrepreneur Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman are among the 16 executives included on the trip….