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Trump Excludes Nvidia CEO from China Delegation Amid AI Controls

5/12/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was not invited to U.S. President Donald Trump's Beijing delegation of 16 senior U.S. CEOs.
The delegation, which includes Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Larry Fink, Stephen Schwarzman, and Kelly Ortberg, will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 in Beijing.
Congress is advancing bipartisan AI export-control legislation that would restrict Nvidia’s chip sales to China.

History

Historical Context

After the Trump administration placed Huawei on the Commerce Department’s Entity List in May 2019—adding 70 subsidiaries and prompting the August 2018 NDAA ban on Huawei and ZTE equipment—the U.S. tightened export controls on advanced chips in October 2022. That precedent frames today’s exclusion of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang from President Trump’s Beijing delegation and the risk to Nvidia’s AI-chip sales to China.

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Story summary

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was not invited to U.S. President Donald Trump's Beijing delegation of 16 senior U.S. CEOs.
The delegation, which includes Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Larry Fink, Stephen Schwarzman, and Kelly Ortberg, will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 in Beijing.
Congress is advancing bipartisan AI export-control legislation that would restrict Nvidia’s chip sales to China.

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