Google and Boeing sent representatives to attend the Shenzhen APEC Summit, and Huang Renxun is unlikely to accompany them

A promotional sign for the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Shenzhen, China. (Bloomberg)

[International News Center/Comprehensive Report] American technology giant Google and aviation manufacturer Boeing have confirmed that they will send representatives to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC) Business Leaders Summit to be held in Shenzhen, China next week, but it is still unclear whether Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will attend. According to people familiar with the matter, Huang Jensen currently seems unlikely to attend.

The South China Morning Post reported on the 11th that the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the organizer of the summit, confirmed that companies such as Google, Boeing, UBS, and Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group have signed up to participate. The Business Leaders Summit will be held from the 17th to the 18th, followed by the APEC Leaders’ Meeting from the 18th to the 19th.

U.S. President Trump has confirmed that he will attend the leaders' meeting and is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the third time this year. According to reports, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk and Mastercard CEO Milbach will also accompany Trump on his visit to China. The two traveled together during Trump's visit to China in May this year.

Jen-Hsun Huang was originally on the list of business leaders invited by Trump, but it was recently revealed that he has a close relationship with Alice Huang, the former director of Singapore's artificial intelligence computing company Megaspeed. The United States suspects that Huang had provided information to Beijing, raising national security concerns.

Three Republican chairs of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Special Committee on China and Intelligence Committee have asked Huang to attend a closed briefing on the 18th to explain his dealings with Huang Le and Huida's security measures to prevent foreign intelligence infiltration. Jen-Hsun Huang has not yet confirmed whether he will attend.

Trump recently said that he would "of course take" Huang to APEC and that he had not heard that Huang had done anything wrong. China refutes the espionage accusations as baseless.