A bipartisan group of lawmakers is planning a three-day trip to Hollywood and Silicon Valley this week to meet with CEOs and top executives at Disney, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and more, sources told Axios.
are increasingly caught up in escalating tensions between the U.S. and China over intellectual property and trade issues.: The delegation is being led by Rep. Mike Gallagher , chairman of the newly formed House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, two sources told Axios. He will be joined by around 10 other lawmakers on the committee, from both parties."This can't all be defensive," one committee aide told Axios.
The trip is "intended to just hear mostly from them about how they're thinking about various issues," the aide added, noting that the conversations are meant to be constructive, and come with no legislative agenda.relationship with China, followed by meetings with Hollywood producers, former studio executives and screenwriters.On Thursday,
committee members will meet with a group of Silicon Valley leaders including Microsoft president Brad Smith, Alphabet president of global affairs & chief legal officer Kent Walker, as well as executives from Palantir and Scale AI.first trip to ChinaThey'll also host discussions about Russia-China relations with former Defense Secretary James Mattis and Stanford fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro.
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