Following Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyouts of Twitter Inc., Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos offered a daring question: could this make things tough for Tesla Inc. in China? Bezos brought attention to Tesla’s tight relations with China, the world’s largest electric car market and home to the company’s first overseas facility, in a series of tweets. The year before, the Shanghai facility produced around half of the company’s worldwide cars, and Musk has indicated that number might quadruple this year.
After work hours, a spokesperson from Musk’s family office did not immediately reply to a request for comment. In just one of his first tweets following the take-private transaction, Musk defended free expression on the internet. Officials in China, meanwhile, have banned Twitter, as well as most other American social media platforms, due to concerns about the influence on public debate.
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