White House Unveils 100-Plus Xi Dinner Guests, Listing Only 7 Chinese Officials
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Updated · CNBC · Sep 25
White House Unveils 100-Plus Xi Dinner Guests, Listing Only 7 Chinese Officials
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Sep 25
Summary
More than 100 guests will attend Thursday’s state dinner for Xi Jinping, with the White House list dominated by U.S. officials, executives and spouses rather than a large Chinese delegation.
Only seven Chinese officials were listed alongside Xi and Peng Liyuan, despite earlier expectations that Chinese business leaders might join the visit.
Nvidia, Apple, Meta and OpenAI were represented by top executives including Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, while Anthropic was absent.
Xi arrived Wednesday for his first U.S. state visit since the Obama era and is scheduled to depart Friday, making the tightly curated guest list a closely watched signal of who gets access.