Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, wrote an opinion piece for China Cyberspace Management’s official publication. This important organisation is in charge of big internet companies’ data protection and collaborates with other governmental agencies to regulate online content.
The billionaire joined key figures in the local business community, such as the president of Antgroup, in laying forth a well-known vision of how technology can safeguard humanity’s future in the July issue of the official CAC magazine.
These opinions are consistent with the administration of President Xi Jinping, which has worked for more than a year to weaken the influence of tech titans like Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group. This effort cost the companies’ market value more than $1 trillion when regulators blocked their initial public offering. Antgroups’ first record year is in 2020, and it culminated when Didi Global was delisted as a result of a move spearheaded by the CAC cyberspace agency.
Musk’s proposals are comparable to the outreach that Sundar Pichai of Alphabet and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms conducted in the past, when US Internet giants aspired to do business with the second-largest economy in the world.
Musque is attempting to navigate the same technological tightrope as Pichai and Zuckerberg did before him, but the times are different, according to Kendra Schaeffer, head of technology policy research at Trivium China.
Tech leaders are becoming more aware of this as they try to preserve positive ties in China. Either Chinese restrictions, US users, or the US government are removing the choice from their hands. I would be astounded if Musk doesn’t appear before a congressional committee within a year to answer questions about his ties with China, she said.
Shanghai’s Tesla plant is the most productive in the world, and China is the world’s largest market for electric vehicles.
Amperex Technology, the largest producer of electric vehicle batteries in the world with its headquarters in Fujian Province, is one of its suppliers. Musk has referred to the Chinese market as being essential to the company’s expansion objectives, despite the fact that some Chinese customers have complained about safety, quality, and customer service issues for which Tesla has apologised and its domestic data set has come under scrutiny.
After visiting the Xis World Internet Conference in September and touting the advantages of global cooperation, Musk came under fire for his close ties to Beijing. In January, he also inaugurated a brand-new showroom in the Xinjiang region of China. A Tesla China official claimed that Musk wrote the article, but she would not elaborate.
“I want to do all we can to make the best use of technology to help create a brighter future for humanity,” Musk said.
To that aim, we should invest in every field that advances a sustainable future.
Musk said in the editorial that the magazine, whose first issue was published this year, had contacted him for the piece. The businessman listed his companies, including Tesla Bot, a Tesla robot that will shortly reveal its first prototype, and Neuralink Corp., which is developing a brain chip.
His Chinese buddies were his target audience, and he framed the SpaceX project as building an independent metropolis on Mars.
Musk added that he hoped more individuals will join us in the effort to hasten the global switch to renewable energy. In order to build a future worth waiting for, I also invite like-minded Chinese partners to join us in investigating clean energy, artificial intelligence, human-machine cooperation, and space exploration.
Elon Musk discusses his future plans in an article for China that includes a metropolis on Mars.
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