A bipartisan Congress delegation is set to privately meet a select number of senior Silicon Valley and Hollywood executives to discuss strategy pertaining to China, according to a new Axios report.
The report states that tech and entertainment entities are “increasingly caught up in escalating tensions between the U.S. and China over intellectual property and trade issues”. The bipartisan delegation is led by Rep. Mike Gallagher and includes 10 other congresspersons, adds the report.
The talks are set to be proactive in nature, as one source told Axios that “We also need to think about offensive and how do we out-compete”. Artificial intelligence is set to be an important discussion point among the involved parties. The talks are also set to be mostly informal in nature with “no legislative agenda”, at least initially.
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The three-day trip will commence on Wednesday with meetings with notable people in Hollywood. The delegation will first meet with Disney CEO, Bob Iger, before holding similar talks with unnamed Hollywood producers and executives.
The delegation will then meet with select Silicon Valley executives on Thursday. The list includes Microsoft’s Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith, Alphabet’s President of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker, and other executive from Palantir and Scale AI.
Finally, the delegation will conclude its trip on Friday by meeting Apple CEO Tim Cook. Cook just concluded his first trip to China in three years. The CEO attended China Development Forum and met the country’s minister of commerce. The delegation will also debate strategies on limiting the use of forced labor in supply chains.
