Musk, Rubio, Hegseth: Who’s Touring With Trump to China?

President Trump’s entourage for his journey to China consists of prime administration officers, a number of of the nation’s strongest executives and members of the Trump household.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is touring with Mr. Trump, regardless of sanctions China imposed on him in 2020 over his feedback about its human rights file. Pete Hegseth would be the first sitting protection secretary to go to China since Jim Mattis made the journey in 2018. And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent can also be within the entourage, after meeting with China’s vice premier, He Lifeng, in South Korea forward of Mr. Trump’s conferences with Xi Jinping, China’s chief.

Eric Trump, the president’s center son, who runs the Trump Organization, the primary household enterprise, was a part of the group greeted by a pink carpet as he descended the steps from Air Force One onto the tarmac in Beijing. Next to him was Lara Trump, his spouse, and behind them was Elon Musk, a former prime adviser to Mr. Trump who was among the many many enterprise leaders invited to attend, in an obvious signal that relations between the 2 males are friendlier than they had been final 12 months.

Brett Ratner, a movie producer and director, was additionally noticed by reporters on Air Force One and shared an image on social media of a word welcoming him onto the airplane. Mr. Ratner directed “Melania,” Amazon’s documentary on the primary girl, Melania Trump, a comeback for the filmmaker, who has confronted allegations from ladies of sexual harassment and misconduct. Mr. Ratner has denied these allegations. Attempts to achieve Mr. Ratner’s representatives weren’t instantly profitable.

The summit, which may form the subsequent chapter in U.S.-Chinese relations, is about to start on Thursday. Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi are anticipated to debate commerce and funding, in keeping with senior U.S. officers, together with the struggle in Iran and different issues.

Here’s a have a look at a few of these in Trump’s entourage:

White House officers:

• Marco Rubio, the secretary of state

• Pete Hegseth, the protection secretary

• Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary

Business leaders:

• Tim Cook of Apple

• Larry Fink of BlackRock

• Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone

• Kelly Ortberg of Boeing

• Brian Sikes of Cargill

• Jane Fraser of Citi

• Jim Anderson of Coherent

• Larry Culp of GE Aerospace

• David Solomon of Goldman Sachs

• Jacob Thaysen of Illumina

• Michael Miebach of Mastercard

• Dina Powell McCormick of Meta

• Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron

• Jensen Huang of Nvidia

• Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm

• Elon Musk of Tesla

• Ryan McInerney of Visa