Musk, China, & Trump — Where Is This Going To Lead?

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There was some bizarre reporting as we speak, or a bizarre story, however it doesn’t matter what the reality of it’s, it brings up some actually fascinating factors. To start with, that is what’s been reported and claimed:

• Protection officers reportedly confirmed to NBC News early on Friday that Elon Musk was going to be assembly on the Pentagon as we speak, and included within the discussions could be the matter of potential warfare with China.
• Xochitl Hinojosa, a earlier spokesperson for former Lawyer Normal Eric Holder, commented that profession officers should have shared this data with the media due to concern about what was going to be shared. “What is happening here, and everyone needs to be scared, is Pentagon officials are sounding the alarm,” Hinojosa informed CNN. “This doesn’t just happen on its own. This has happened because career officials in the Pentagon are terrified. And they believe there is a conflict of interest. That is why it is in the New York Times. Because I am sure they took it to the senior most people within the White House and within the Pentagon and they didn’t do anything about it.”
• Donald Trump responded that the assembly on the Pentagon, which ended up lasting about an hour, wouldn’t embody something on China. “They said, incorrectly, that Elon Musk is going to the Pentagon tomorrow to be briefed on any potential ‘war with China.’ How ridiculous? China will not even be mentioned or discussed,” Trump posted on Fact Social Thursday night time.
• On the subject of a possible warfare plan with China, “I don’t want to show it to anybody. You know you’re talking about a potential war with China,” Trump said within the Oval Workplace. “We don’t want to have a potential war with China, but I can tell you, if we did, we’re very well equipped to handle it.”
• “He’s there for DOGE, not there for China, and if you ever mentioned China, I think he’d walk out of the room,” Trump additionally famous.
• Musk said that he appears “forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NOW.” He added, “They will be found.”

Who is aware of what the assembly truly included? I’m inclined to consider China wasn’t mentioned, and positively not a China warfare plan, for the explanations Trump mentions. I do know — I don’t recall the final time I agreed with Trump on something, however the factors listed below are frequent sense. Nonetheless, given how a lot he usually says the alternative of the reality, who is aware of?

The actual fact of the matter is that any important China insurance policies might massively have an effect on Tesla (and thus Elon), and a possible warfare with China undoubtedly would. Much more so if Xi Jinping sees Musk as coordinating with Trump on this. Given how shut Musk has turn into with Trump, one would assume Trump would give Musk a heads-up on any such issues.

It doesn’t matter what was mentioned or not mentioned, although, the large query is what is definitely going to occur between the US and China. That would considerably have an effect on the US economic system, and repercussions for Tesla — within the US and in China — might be huge. Even Tesla’s US-sold vehicles depend on Chinese language-made provides, however most likely rather more severely, Tesla’s enterprise in China is already tenuous — the competitors appears to be innovating rather more rapidly and is beginning to eat into Tesla’s quite wholesome market share there. One phrase from Xi Jinping and Tesla gross sales might actually crash in China. Provided that China was Tesla’s biggest market in 2024accounting for greater than a 3rd of the corporate’s gross sales, that’s a really, very huge deal.

Who is aware of what’s to return? However this can be a subject we’ll be maintaining a tally of.