Zuckerberg, Bourla among CEOs to attend Trump's state dinner for Xi, sources say (updated)

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22/09/2026 15:47

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NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Pfizer PFE.N CEO Albert Bourla and Meta Platforms META.O chief Mark Zuckerberg are the latest corporate leaders to confirm plans to attend US President Donald Trump's state dinner at the White House on Thursday for Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Trump will welcome the Chinese leader at the White House this week for their second meeting this year, as the two leaders seek stability in a relationship under pressure over issues ranging from trade to Taiwan and Iran, as well as global worries about artificial intelligence.
Zuckerberg and Bourla will share the room with some of the biggest names in American business and technology.
Guests are expected to include Amazon's AMZN.O Jeff Bezos, Alphabet's GOOGL.O Sundar Pichai, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Apple's AAPL.O Tim Cook, Tesla's TSLA.O Elon Musk, Nvidia's NVDA.O Jensen Huang and Dell Technologies' DELL.N Michael Dell.
JPMorgan Chase JPM.N CEO Jamie Dimon and Citigroup C.N CEO Jane Fraser are also expected to attend.

 (Reporting by Michael Erman and Karen Freifeld, additional reporting by Katie Paul and Aatreyee Dasgupta, Editing by Nick Zieminski and Maju Samuel)
 ((michael.erman@thomsonreuters.com;))