Dozens of CEOs and other corporate leaders are tagging along with President Donald Trump when he heads to China next week, including a number of corporate big-wigs, mega-donors and Republican leaders. The head of that council was Andrew Liveris, who will be joining the president in China. The president will be touring Asia from Nov. 5 to Nov. 14, including stops in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. A priority of Trump's Asia tour will be bolstering trade with some of the United States' top business partners. Here is the full list of CEOs and other leaders joining the president in China:
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President Trump's tour of Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines from Friday to November 14 will take him out of Washington for ten days. The US leader's main priority will be to discuss Kim Jong-un's warmongering regime with China as well as key US allies Japan and South Korea. The last time a US president was in Asia for so long was in late 1991 and early 1992, when President George HW Bush became ill at a Japanese state dinner. President Donald Trump flew on Friday morning to Hawaii, stopping for a briefing on US military forces in the Pacific and a visit to Pearl Harbor.
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