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Elon Musk is sucking up to China, and it points to a dark future for Tesla
- throwaway29303 5y agoThe government has no problem using foreign companies to build its industries, only to cast them aside when domestic competitors have grown strong enough to replace them. The message was: Be on your best behavior, or you could be on your way out. If you go by Tesla's mission... Our goal when we created Tesla a decade ago was the same as it is today: to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport by bringing compelling mass market electric cars to market as soon as possible.[0] ...you'll understand that he simply does not care about any of that. If he profits while doing it even better. So from his (or Tesla's) perspective it's a win-win. [0] - https://www.tesla.com/blog/mission-tesla https://www.tesla.com/blog/mission-tesla
- nabla9 5y agoArm China's CEO hijacked the company, seized the Arm IP in China and split it from Arm Holdings. There is nothing Arm can do. There is no independent judiciary in China. Everything businessmen do there is conditional to party approval. One condition for doing business is not speaking freely about China. Elon Musk can slash out against Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrren, but he will hold his tongue when it comes to Xi Jinping.