{"id":3379,"date":"2026-05-19T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:20:54","slug":"big-tech-favoritism-on-display-with-ceos-set-to-join-trump-at-china-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Favoritism on Display with CEOs Set to Join Trump at China Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sixteen Big Tech CEOs will be joining President Trump on his upcoming summit with president Xi Jinping in China this week, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-china-musk-cook.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">media reports<\/a>. The Big Tech executives in attendance are expected to include Elon Musk and Apple\u2019s Tim Cook.<\/p>\n<p> In response, <strong>Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman issued the following statement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt\u2019s telling that when Donald Trump wants to put technology on the agenda for discussion with China, he turns to the Big Tech executives who are his donors, flatterers and enablers, rather than policy experts who might represent the national interest instead of corporate interests.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cBig Tech companies have spent at least $653 million cozying up to President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress \u2013 including donations to Trump\u2019s inauguration, his gaudy ballroom and his political committees, pricey settlements of bad-faith lawsuits filed by Trump, and Amazon\u2019s sponsorship of the Melania documentary. Big Tech executives\u2019 participation in Trump\u2019s China visit is yet another example of how they are getting back far more than they ever paid in.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen Big Tech CEOs will be joining President Trump on his upcoming summit with president Xi Jinping in China this week, according to media reports. The Big Tech executives in attendance are expected to include Elon Musk and Apple\u2019s Tim Cook. In response, Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman issued the following statement: \u201cIt\u2019s telling that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}