Xi Jinping's banquet to give an opportunity to the company owners in the United States caused controversy in the United States. At a time when it was on the agenda, the company owners who participated in the banquet paid 40,000 dollars to participate in the banquet.
According to the US Weekly News Network, the US House of Representatives' Special Committee on China's Strategic Challenges revealed the names of the American company owners who paid $40,000 to Xi Jinping's dinner, and they were criticized as "honored guests who paid $40,000 to the dinner party of the genocidal communist Xi Jinping." .
According to reports, the company's owners include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Boyne CEO Stanley Dial, Honeywell CEO Darius Adamzek, Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Mastercard CEO Marit Yanov, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio, Amway CEO Milind Pant, and others.
The dinner, co-organized by the Committee on US-China Relations and the US-China Business Council, was an opportunity for President Xi Jinping of the Chinese regime, which has a serious forced labor problem, to address the business world.
Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competitiveness, has accused American company officials of attending dinner with the leader of a regime that is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. "It is unconscionable for American companies to pay thousands of dollars to attend receptions hosted by Chinese Communist Party officials who have committed genocide against millions of innocent men, women and children in Xinjiang," he wrote in a letter to the US-China Business Council and the Committee on US-China Relations.
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff also attended the event. CNBC reported that Musk left the dinner without attending.