Elon Musk skipped his preferred platform of Twitter for this latest round of corporate diplomacy, so you know he’s serious.
Musk spoke up over the weekend after a Friday report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that China would bar “military staff and employees of key state-owned companies” from using Tesla vehicles. There’s concern that they present a national security risk, since Tesla is an American company and its vehicles collect data.
(You might remember the former Trump administration using similar justification when the ex-president threatened to ban TikTok in the U.S. — a legally questionable mandate, it should be said — if the China-based ByteDance refused to sell the social media platform to an American buyer.) Read more…
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