Half of those "AI Executives" are just part of hype companies wrapped up in the AI bubble. It's the exact same as the crypto bubble, everyone started some company to get gullible VCs to dump money into them. Now it's popping. Congrats. Now we're going to lose the rest of the internet as we know it because they wanted to make it rich quick.
The subject of the photograph is meant to be the Great Wall of China, which the name Great Firewall of China is referencing. Now tech CEOs liked what ideas the dictatorship had and want an American version. Obama is present because I believe he narrated a wonders of the world documentary, and it was just a weird choice.
They were fine with ditching American manufacturing to make companies like Walmart by moving it to places like China, Bangladesh, etc. I guess this is competition and they don't like that.
They want to stop NVIDIA chips from entering China? Good luck with that! China is where they manufacture the circuit boards containing those chips! Sure, you can halt the supply of NVIDIA chips to China, but not without putting NVIDIA out of business.