One Dinner That Changed the World: The Night Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, Lei Jun, Liang Rubo and Yang Yuanqing Shared the Same Table in Beijing

Twentieth-century diplomacy was built on political capital. Around the negotiating table sat generals, diplomats, and politicians, representing sovereignty, ideology, and military power. In the twenty-first century, however, that table has quietly begun to change. The influence of multinational corporations has steadily expanded into spaces once reserved exclusively for the language of state power. Yet for years, this shift remained informal, implicit,...

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US President Donald Trump arrived alongside what observers described as a “CEO supergroup”, 17 of America’s most influential business leaders, and personally introduced them one by one to Chinese President Xi Jinping. Standing behind him were figures who collectively embodied the commanding heights of American technology and capital: Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk; NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang, the dominant force in global AI chips; and Apple chief executive Tim Cook, head of the world’s most valuable technology company.

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