Posted on 09/22/2026 9:57:51 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
BREAKING: Elon Musk on China in his new interview with CCTV Finance:
“I generally recommend people go to China as much as they can, because China has so many things to see. I took the bullet train from Beijing to Xi’an. That was a great experience. The train stations are amazing.
“The Terracotta Warriors are one of the wonders of the world. Just make sure you look out the window and aren’t on your phone, because there’s so much to see. Any words I say do not do justice to the incredible majesty that is China. It’s awesome.”
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“He seems like a great leader. Under his tenure, China has prospered immensely. I've seen it firsthand. If you visit China and you see the amount of progress that happens from one year to the next, or even within a year, it's very visible. Like, you can see the new buildings, the new infrastructure.
And it's also obvious to see that just walking around the streets, the increased prosperity of the average Chinese citizen has increased tremendously. All that seems happened under President Xi's, you know, while he's been the leader of China. So he's clearly done an excellent job and is very capable.”
“He seems like a great leader. Under his tenure, China has prospered immensely. I've seen it firsthand. If you visit China and you see the amount of progress that happens from one year to the next, or even within a year, it's very visible. Like, you can see the new buildings, the new infrastructure.
And it's also obvious to see that just walking around the streets, the increased prosperity of the average Chinese citizen has increased tremendously. All that seems happened under President Xi's, you know, while he's been the leader of China. So he's clearly done an excellent job and is very capable.”
“If you think like Star Wars, where you had C-3PO and R2-D2, and they were friendly, helpful robots. Well, wouldn't it be great if everyone could have their own personal C-3PO R2-D2? But even better than that, like more productive.
That could take care of elderly parents, guardian and watch over the children. Or be a teacher, like an individualized tutor to your child. And taking care of any jobs that you can think of.
I think everyone would like to have a future where they can have their own personal robots. And then I think you'll see many companies where it's one person with hundreds, maybe thousands of robots. Like physical robots as well as digital robots.
So the productivity of one person will be greatly amplified. And my prediction is that there will be effectively universal high income. In fact, it's not clear to me that money will even matter in the future.”
“China just has a very strong inherent ability to do manufacturing well...
The magic of Tesla Shanghai is because of the Chinese
What we have is the Tesla China team is just incredibly talented, and hardworking, and trustworthy. The quality is excellent, and the efficiency is excellent
So the Tesla Shanghai factory is a gem, and it's beautiful” x.com/cgtnamerica/st…
From his new interview with CCTV Finance.
California is beautiful too.
He left that for South Texas.
Except for the politicians and the people who voted for them.
Natural beauty. Cities and infrastructure, not so much.
Why post crap?
“Cities and infrastructure, not so much.”
You haven’t been to China in a while. Elon is correct. They’ve really improved their infrastructure and cities.
15 years ago they were choking on coal dust in ghetto apartment buildings, and the average worker couldn’t afford even a chicken a month, and a person had to get the permission of the neighborhood watch granny to leave town. Have they cleaned up that much? If they have, that’s great.
That was better than the communist days when everyone rode bicycles, wore unisex Mao suits and caps with red stars, and such.
It’s amazing how much spiffier things are when you can arbitrarily execute
people. How’s that guy who founded Alibaba doing after his arrest/disappearance?
The Chinese people are not free. No freedom no prosperity.
In praise of communism.
Grok:
Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba) is alive, free, and active again after a long low-profile period—he was never formally arrested or charged.
You think the Chinese put a rover on Mars and the moon, and built the world's fastest, most advanced trains and are second best in AI because they “executed” people?
How'd that work out for Pol Pot, Idi Amin etc etc?
Maybe you should move there.
Maybe you should move there.
In praise of entrepreneurship, free enterprise and innovation. The Chinese are doing better than California. They both started their high speed train projects around the same time, but the Chinese have now built the fastest most advanced high seed trains covering thousands of miles, while California has built exactly ZERO miles of high speed trains, but squandered billions of dollars building nothing.
No one in China is free.
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