The White House has extended invitations to prominent corporate chiefs to travel with President Donald Trump to China this week, Bloomberg News reported, citing a White House official. Among those named as invitees are Tesla's Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook.
Bloomberg's reporting also identified several senior executives from the financial and asset-management sectors who are expected to be part of the president's delegation. The list includes David Solomon of Goldman Sachs Group; Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone; Larry Fink of BlackRock; Jane Fraser of Citigroup; and Dina Powell McCormick of Meta Platforms. The collection of attendees is described as a group of more than a dozen top executives accompanying the president.
According to the Bloomberg report, the administration's objective for the visit is commercial in nature: the president hopes the trip will help secure a range of business deals and purchase agreements with Chinese counterparts. The report frames the delegation as joining the president for a summit with China's leader, Xi Jinping, with the apparent goal of facilitating such commercial outcomes.
Requests for comment from the companies named in connection with the planned delegation were not immediately answered, the reporting said.
Chinese authorities have stated that the president's trip will be a state visit from May 13 to May 15, information attributed to the Xinhua official news agency in the Bloomberg account.
This account is based on the details provided in the cited report, which attributed the information to a White House official and to the Xinhua agency for scheduling details. Where the report noted company responses, it said those requests for comment had not yet been answered.