Posted on 10/08/2022 10:17:15 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sparked a flurry of critical reactions after telling the Financial Times that he thinks conflict over Taiwan is inevitable and the self-governed island should become a “special administrative region” under Beijing’s control, like Hong Kong but “more lenient.”
Musk made the remarks in a Financial Times interview published on Oct. 7, after being asked about China, where Tesla manufactures as much as half of its total output.
If an open conflict over Taiwan were to break out, which Musk said he thinks is bound to happen, then Tesla would get caught up in it, he said. Apparently wishing to avoid business interruptions, Musk then expressed his eyebrow-raising take on the fate of the island, which Beijing has long vowed to gain control over, by force if necessary.
“My recommendation … would be to figure out a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable, probably won’t make everyone happy,” Musk is quoted as saying.
He said he believes it’s possible or even probable “that they could have an arrangement that’s more lenient than Hong Kong.”
When the former British colony was returned to China over two decades ago, Beijing vowed to preserve Hong Kong’s capitalist system for 50 years and so allow residents to enjoy many freedoms that Mainland Chinese cannot. But China’s communist rulers have, in recent years, taken increasingly hardline measures to hamstring Hong Kong’s political system and stifle dissent.
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I think Elon is a great engineer. However he works 80 hour weeks and has done so for years. He goes a little weird with anything not engineering.
How did that work out for Hong Kong?
NFW.
Elon Musk is starting to come across to me as another Ross Perot. Talks a lot but doesn’t say anything nor stand for anything. I don’t trust this guy.
He doesn’t understand geopolitics. For the same reason why HK was promised one deal and got another, no such deal with Taiwan is possible.
Dude’s been smokin’ too much wacky weed.
Hong Kong. Yeah, it’s fine, except if you’re Cardinal Zen…
Good question. Bill Gates and Elon Musk have both proved that you can be very rich and also say very unintelligent things.
Like the Biden regime does in America?
Same Biden regime that created a “Disinformation Board” within DHS and attempted to head it with about the craziest, most deranged female ever born in America?
Better idea: Make Hong Kong a “special administrative zone” of Taiwan.
Musk needs China. Without China, Tesla will have a tough time. He only praises China.
What communist China has bending to ‘Special Administrative Zone’ Hong Kong proves that they cannot be trusted with a ‘Special Administrative Zone’ Taiwan!!!!
He’s an interesting guy, in that he doesn’t appear to have a “side”
Unless we are willing to stop purchasing Chinese products and propping up their communist regime, and we need to simply step away from Taiwan, not our concern. Otherwise, we need to be prepared, and long overdue, to simply stop buying Chinese products. Can we do that or will we be fighting China directly or indirectly at the same time we’re buying products that pay for that regime to fight and kill Americans? Already, with coronavirus, they have killed Americans, and we keep buying their products. Already, they’re killing us with fentanyl and we still buy their products. At what point to say stop?
If Taiwan gives an inch, they’ll be completely gobbled up by China within a few years max, and they know it.
Ut oh. Musk doesn’t understand Red China but he is giving advice about trusting Red China.
He needs to read a book or something before speaking.
Frankly, I think he's trying to make himself a "problem" for Biden.
And feuding between Musk and Trump...well, they know what they're doing....and likely doing it with a smile.
He’s mislead if he thinks the Chicomms will go along with this.
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