Although he has allegedly been estranged from the White House for several months, Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, reappeared behind President Donald Trump during his arrival in China.
The Republican president plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to stop the tariff war implemented since his second arrival at the White House and which last year involved up to 145% charges on products from the Asian nation that entered the US commercial market.
In this sense, One of Trump’s strong cards to negotiate cooperation agreements between the United States and China is to offer the contribution of several transnational companies.
Hence the importance that Elon Musk resolves as the most important business leader supporting the Seventy-nine-year-old Republican, this despite the distance that arose between the two.
Although the richest man in the world is considered a pillar of the campaign that won Trump’s return to Washington based on the more than $200 million dollars donated to his presidential candidacy, at one point he found it uncomfortable and chose to leave him out of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
From there, a war was declared between both characters and Musk even threatened to found his own political party, which did not come to light.
On the other hand, Trump hinted that he could start a witch hunt to practically expel his patron from the United States, a situation that did not occur either.
While publicly both magnates challenged each other, in private they signed million-dollar collaboration agreements linked to technological contracts linked to the aerospace industry and the Pentagon.
In that way, The alleged war of words between Trump and Musk was just a kind of smokescreen to divert attention from the real problems in the American economy.
That is why, faced with the challenge of convincing China to cooperate with the United States in various aspects linked to geopolitics and geoeconomics, The American president once again turned to the co-founder of Tesla for help to lead at least 15 other businessmen to speak before the Chinese government about important projects aimed at their market.
“I will ask President Xi, a leader of extraordinary distinction, to ‘open up’ China so that these brilliant people can unfold their magic and help take the People’s Republic to an even higher level.
In fact, I promise you that when we are together, which will be in a matter of hours, that will be my first request. “I have never seen or heard of any understanding that could be more beneficial to our incredible countries!” Trump wrote. on the Reality Social platform.
The complete list of businessmen who traveled to China aboard Air Drive One is made up of: Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia; Larry Fink, CEO of Blackstone; Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of BlackRock; Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup; David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs; Michael Miebach, CEO of Mastercard; Ryan McInerney, CEO of Visa; Kelly Ortberg, CEO of Boeing; Brian Sikes, CEO of Cargill; Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco; Jim Anderson, CEO of Coherent; Larry Culp, CEO of Total Electric; Jacob Thaysen, CEO of Illumina; Dina Powell McCormick, president of Meta; Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron; and Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm.
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