China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report

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China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report​

PUBLISHED TUE, FEB 28 202310:53 AM ESTUPDATED TUE, FEB 28 20237:27 PM EST
Rohan Goswami@ROGOSWAMI
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KEY POINTS

• Chinese state-run media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was risking his relationship with China after he retweeted about the U.S. government’s “low-confidence” assessment that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
• The warning comes ahead of a congressional hearing on China, and after the downing of a Chinese espionage balloon heightened tensions between Beijing and the U.S.

A Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he shared reporting on the U.S. Department of Energy’s “low confidence” assessment that the global Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.

CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reported Tuesday morning on the warning from the social media pages of the Global Times, the English-language subsidiary of the government-controlled People’s Daily. The Global Times warned Musk that he could be “breaking the pot of China” after the Tesla and Twitter CEO responded to tweets that asserted that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan research laboratory.

The saying is akin to the idiom “to bite the hand that feeds you,” Yoon reported. Tesla has an expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer’s second largest market.

The Department of Energy concluded with “low confidence” that the Covid pandemic began in a Wuhan laboratory, but sources familiar with the matter stressed to NBC News that the conclusion was not viewed as hugely significant. The FBI reached a similar conclusion at a “moderate confidence” level in 2021.

The governing Chinese Communist Party has been highly sensitive to the matter, especially as it courts outside investment after months of zero-Covid lockdowns prompted nationwide protests, Yoon reported.

Musk wasn’t immediately available to comment.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/chinas-ccp-...eak-report.html

 

[blackmondy]

Tiong-cock very good at 此地无银三百俩.

 

[laksaboy]

This is why you shouldn't invest or build factories in China. You can be held hostage like this.

It's not even that cheap to manufacture your crap in China nowadays. That ship had sailed around the mid-2000s.

 

[syed putra]

If tesla Shanghai factory took loans from chinese banks, then no oroblem. Elon can walk out and They can reposses the factory. Tesla was not just the hardware. It was the software too.

 

[blackmondy]

That's why Ah Musk is setting up base in Mexico now.