Jon Cheng

And we don't know what the president said in response, at least not yet.

You have Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, Elon Musk, three of the biggest names in tech.

And they're also a host of CEOs from the financial sector as well.

And it does reflect

an interest still in pockets of corporate America to continue to engage with China, despite all of the geopolitical risks and tensions between the two countries, despite the fact that China has seen all of these domestic rivals spring up in a lot of these industries.

A lot of the easy money is now, in theory, gone in China, but obviously the CEOs see a lot of potential there still.

tech.

The fact that Jensen Huang is going to be there suggests that perhaps this is going to be a positive sign for China and its ability to

get its hands on Nvidia's chips.

Jensen Huang has made the argument that if Chinese entities are not able to get their hands on the top Nvidia chips, then they're going to develop their own indigenous capabilities and that will be detrimental to US interests in the long run.

Elon Musk is interesting because he's been such a central player in the rise of China's own industries in many ways, in particular, the EV industry.

And he has very deep ties with the Chinese leadership as well.

So insofar as he can serve as a bridge between the two sides, it does signal perhaps that there's going to be just a little bit more of a meeting of minds here between the US and Chinese delegations.