> The hope is that Russia / China will have no way of preventing Starling from existing (maybe except shooting down satellites and causing a major international

> The hope is that Russia / China will have no way of preventing Starling from existing (maybe except shooting down satellites and causing a major international diplomatic incident). They've got a much easier way of preventing it from operating: Ban sales of Teslas until Musk relents. Nice factory producing 250k cars per year for the Chinese market you've got there. It'd be a real shame if some sort of party of workers were to seize the means of production.