U.S. and Chinese Officials Attend Trump-Xi State Dinner
A state dinner hosted by the White House on Thursday featured over 100 attendees including U.S. government officials, business leaders, and their spouses. On the Chinese side, seven officials accompanied President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan alongside Donald Trump and Melania Trump. Major U.S. tech companies such as Nvidia, Apple, Meta, OpenAI, AMD, Zoom, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Boeing, BlackRock, Blackstone, Lockheed Martin were represented by their executives or co-founders at the event. Notably absent was Anthropic, a major AI company. This visit marks Xi Jinping's first state trip to the U.S. since 2019 and is seen as an opportunity for diplomatic engagement between China and the United States.
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Topics: diplomacy state visit U.S.-China relations