Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined President Donald Trump on his visit to China. This comes after previous reports mentioning Huang wouldn’t be among the dozen U.S, executives going with the president.
According to CNBC, Trump called Huang and asked him to join him after seeing media coverage about the Nvidia CEO’s absence.
“Jensen is attending the summit at the invitation of President Trump to support America and the administration’s goals,” a Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement. Trump also confirmed in a social media post that Huang was on board Air Force One, and denied that the Nvidia leader had not been invited. He also mentioned that opening up China for U.S. businesses would be his “first request” to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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“I will be asking President Xi, a Leader of extraordinary distinction, to ‘open up’ China so that these brilliant people can work their magic, and help bring the People’s Republic to an even higher level!” Trump said, referring to the wider delegation of U.S. business representatives.
Nvidia’s chips have faced tight restrictions on sales in China over the last four years. However recently, the second-most powerful H200 chips have been approved for the country.
China has also sought to create its own chips and create its own AI models like DeepSeek that do not rely on Nvidia. An article earlier this month in the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official journal noted that local companies had to slow their development due to U.S. chip restrictions, while highlighting Nvidia’s dominance in the market for global graphics processing units.
“I still believe that we are far away from a deal on export controls … it’s positive that he’s there and he’s part of the President’s delegation, and that that’s important for him and it’s important for the President,” Carlos Gutierrez, former U.S. secretary of commerce, told Squawk Box Asia.
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Huang has been pushing for greater access to the Chinese market that he has said represents a $50 billion opportunity.
Other members of the delegation include Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg and Citi’s Jane Fraser.
This summit is Trump’s first international trip since the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran began in February. It is expected to cover topics like that conflict, tariffs and China’s relationship with Taiwan.