Billionaire Becomes Last-Minute Addition to Trump China Trip

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President Donald Trump picked up a last-minute passenger as Air Force One stopped for fuel en route to Beijing.

Trump is taking some of the best-known tech bros with him on his state visit to China, including Tesla’s Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

But one name was https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/nvidia-ceo-huang-trump-china-trip-chip-sales.html" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/nvidia-ceo-huang-trump-china-trip-chip-sales.html">conspicuously absent as the group flew off on Tuesday: Jensen Huang of Nvidia, whose chips are powering the global AI revolution.

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