Cotton continues: “Elon Musk told China’s state television, ‘I’m very confident that the future of China is going to be great and that China is headed towards being the biggest economy in the world and a lot of prosperity in the future.’”.
In a new book, the Arkansas senator Tom Cotton condemns Elon Musk for “chasing Chinese dollars” and having “shamefully supplicated China’s Communist rulers”, in order to advance his own interests as chief executive of companies including Tesla and SpaceX.
Disapprovingly, Cotton quotes remarks from 2021 in which Musk told Chinese state television he was “very confident about Tesla’s future in China” and “very confident that [the] future of China is gonna be great”.
Top Republican condemns Elon Musk for ‘supplication’ to China in new book Exclusive: Tom Cotton, Senate intelligence chair, risks angering key Trump ally with harsh words for ‘tech titans’.
Trump has long attacked China on trade grounds, implementing tariffs on Chinese products, though he recently changed his position on TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app that Congress and Joe Biden banned on national security grounds, only for Trump, who previously supported a ban, to order a delay in implementation.
