The guest list for Xi Jinping‘s state dinner is dominated by giants of tech and business, as artificial intelligence is among the most pressing concerns for President Donald Trump and the Chinese president during his visit to Washington.
The dinner comes midway through the three-day visit, which started with Trump meeting Xi at Joint Base Andrews, a rare demonstration of respect, on Wednesday before an arrival ceremony at the White House on Thursday, followed by a Rose Garden military review and their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office as the first lady and Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, participate in a separate event.
TRUMP AND XI ARE ARMED WITH A DIFFERENT SET OF PRIORITIES
On Friday, Xi and Peng will return to the White House from the Waldorf Astoria, not the traditional Blair House, for a private tea before departing the presidential complex for a tour of the National Archives to see “some of the United States’ most important founding documents as we celebrate our 250th anniversary,” according to a senior administration official.
Here are some of the luminaries on the state dinner’s guest list:
- Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos
- Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai
- Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
- Citi CEO Jane Fraser
- Apple executive chairman Tim Cook