{"id":70955,"date":"2026-05-14T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/70955\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:48:26","slug":"elon-musk-tim-cook-pete-hegseth-who-has-travelled-with-trump-to-china-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/70955\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Pete Hegseth: who has travelled with Trump to China? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

US <\/a>president Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> entourage for his trip to China <\/a>includes top administration officials, several of the country\u2019s most powerful executives and members of the Trump family.<\/p>\n

US secretary of state Marco Rubio <\/a>has travelled with Trump, despite sanctions China imposed on him in 2020 over his comments about its human rights record. Pete Hegseth<\/a> is the first sitting defense secretary to visit China since Jim Mattis made the trip in 2018. And US treasury secretary Scott Bessent is also in the entourage, after meeting with China\u2019s vice premier, He Lifeng, in South Korea before Trump\u2019s meetings with Xi Jinping<\/a>, China\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n

Eric Trump, the president\u2019s middle son, who runs the Trump Organisation, the main family business, was part of the group greeted by a red carpet as he descended the stairs from Air Force One onto the tarmac in Beijing. <\/p>\n

\"USUS secretary of state Marco Rubio, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Eric Trump and Lara Trump depart Air Force One as US president Donald Trump is greeted on arrival in Beijing. Photograph: Alex Wong\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Next to him was Lara Trump, his wife, and behind them was Elon Musk, a former top adviser to Donald Trump who was among the many business leaders invited to attend, in an apparent sign that relations between the two men are friendlier than they were last year.<\/p>\n

Brett Ratner, a film producer and director, was also spotted by reporters on Air Force One and shared a picture on social media of a note welcoming him onto the plane. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0Xi Jinping warns Donald Trump that \u2018mishandling\u2019 Taiwan issue could lead to conflictOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Ratner directed \u201cMelania,\u201d Amazon\u2019s documentary on first lady Melania Trump, a comeback for the filmmaker, who has faced allegations from women of sexual harassment and misconduct. Ratner has denied those allegations. Attempts to reach Ratner\u2019s representatives were not immediately successful.<\/p>\n

\"TimTim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, attends a state banquet during the summit between US president Donald Trump and president Xi Jinping of China. Photograph: Kenny Holston\/The New York Times \" Elon Musk attends a state banquet during the summit between president Donald Trump and president Xi Jinping. Photograph: Kenny Holston\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

The summit, which could shape the next chapter in US-Chinese relations, began Thursday. Trump and Xi are expected to discuss trade and investment, according to senior US officials, along with the war in Iran and other matters.<\/p>\n

\"MembersMembers of the US delegation including White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Trade representative Jamieson Greer, secretary of war Pete Hegseth, secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent, secretary of state Marco Rubio, ambassador to China David Perdue and CEOs from various industries stand prior to a welcome ceremony for Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People. Photograph: Alex Wong\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at some of those in Trump\u2019s entourage:<\/p>\n

White House officials:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Marco Rubio, secretary of state<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pete Hegseth, defense secretary<\/p>\n

\u2014 Scott Bessent, treasury secretary<\/p>\n

Business leaders:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tim Cook of Apple<\/p>\n

\u2014 Larry Fink of BlackRock<\/p>\n

\u2014 Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kelly Ortberg of Boeing<\/p>\n

\u2014 Brian Sikes of Cargill<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jane Fraser of Citi<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jim Anderson of Coherent<\/p>\n

\u2014 Larry Culp of GE Aerospace<\/p>\n

\u2014 David Solomon of Goldman Sachs<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jacob Thaysen of Illumina<\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael Miebach of Mastercard<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dina Powell McCormick of Meta<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jensen Huang of Nvidia<\/p>\n

\u2014 Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk of Tesla<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ryan McInerney of Visa<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president Donald Trump\u2019s entourage for his trip to China includes top administration officials, several of the country\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[250,12,186,973,18,628,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-70955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tim-cook","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-marco-rubio","11":"tag-melania-trump","12":"tag-pete-hegseth","13":"tag-tim-cook","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116573012378595600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}