President of the United States, Donald Trump, will be accompanied by Elon Musk & Tim Cook as he visits China to meet his counterpart, President Xi, but NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, is reportedly not going.
US President Trump Is Visiting China this week, along with Elon Musk, Tim Cook, & Many More High-Level Execs
US President Donald J Trump will visit China this week from 13th May to May 15th May. During this visit, Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping. All eyes will be on this visit as it will mark the first time in nearly a decade that a US President will land in China and meet his counterpart.
During the visit, President Trump will be accompanied by some big names and executives from major firms, mainly in the technology industry. The roster includes Elon Musk (X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla), Tim Cook (Apple), executives from Qualcomm, Citigroup, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, BlackRock, and Meta.
While the full details of the meetings are kept secret, likely that trade in the field of technology, especially AI, and tariffs will be a major part of the discussions. With the lineup that is visiting China, the US President will likely sign various business deals, while executives from each firm are expected to sign a similar set of deals with major Chinese firms that will be present during the visits.
Meanwhile, Reuters reports that NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang is not going to be part of the China visit. NVIDIA's CEO and President Donald J Trump go along really well.
NVIDIA has adopted a US-first policy, and currently has zero official share in China's AI domain. NVIDIA is also investing big in made-in-US initiative with the company likely signing a deal with Intel to build its next-gen Feynman GPUs in the US & also prioritizing its Rubin and Blackwell GPUs for US-based AI enterprises and datacenters.
Nvidia, CEO Jensen Huang is not going to Beijing with Trump, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Huang was not invited, the source said, with the White House focusing more on agriculture and commercial aviation matters, such as orders for Boeing planes, on the current trip. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
So Jensen not in the list is a big deal, but if you look at the bigger picture, NVIDIA is likely to remain unaffected whether they get a deal or no deal out of China since their chip demand is blowing through the roof in the AI supercycle.
For a while now, the United States Government has been easing down tariffs and trade restrictions on China. The US was very aggressive in its approach for the majority of last year as it went into a trade war & tariff-frenzy across the entire globe, but has since taken a lighter turn. So we can see the resumption of talks between the US and China in the technology department, but each country still has its own reservations and will likely take a step-by-step approach rather than announcing some big deals right away.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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