The business delegation flying to China with President Donald Trump this week carries a combined personal fortune of roughly £639 billion ($868 billion), based on Forbes data, Bloomberg estimates and SEC filings. Their combined wealth is larger than the GDP of countries like Sweden, Belgium and Argentina.
The roster, confirmed by a White House official on 11 May, reads like a roll call of American corporate power: Tesla's Elon Musk (£597 billion / $811 billion per Forbes), Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman (£37 billion / $50 billion per Forbes), Apple's Tim Cook (£2.1 billion / $2.9 billion per Forbes) and BlackRock's Larry Fink (£957 million / $1.3 billion per Forbes), alongside the chiefs of Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Visa, Mastercard, Qualcomm, Micron, GE Aerospace, Cargill, Coherent, Illumina and Meta, CNBC reported.
