House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests

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1. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill instead on Saturday, but discarded a provision to screen and regulate U.S. investments in China.

   The scrapped provision “would have made it easier to keep cutting-edge AI and quantum computing tech — as well as jobs — in America,”

   Tesla the only foreign automaker to operate a factory in China without a local joint venture. Tesla also built a battery plant down the street from its Shanghai car factory this year, and aims to develop and sell self-driving vehicle technology in China.

   “His bottom line depends on staying in China’s good graces,” McGovern wrote about Musk. “He wants to build an AI data center there too — which could endanger U.S. security.

   He’s been bending over backwards to ingratiate himself with Chinese leaders.”

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   The Sudafrican illegal immigrant Elon the felon ransacking America economy system and Americans workers future for his bending over…..🤮🐗

   And far right extremists libertarians tech bros fanboys are supporting him and the convicted felon rapist….

2. Booooooo. This sucks.

3. More on this subject from other reputable sources:

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   – Atlantic (B-): [Elon Musk’s X Endgame](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/12/elon-musk-x-congress-shutown/681120/)
   – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (A-): [Interference in election campaign: criticism of Musk’s AfD praise](https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/einmischung-in-wahlkampf-kritik-an-musks-afd-lob-110190571.html)
   – Sydney Morning Herald (B+): [Musk helped kill a bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation](https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/musk-helped-kill-a-bill-but-much-of-what-he-spread-was-misinformation-20241221-p5l04c.html)
   – Wired (C+): [GOP Lawmakers Want Elon Musk to Be Speaker of the House](https://www.wired.com/story/gop-lawmakers-want-elon-musk-to-be-speaker-of-the-house/)

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4. Musk sought to stop the first Continuing Resolution (CR) to protect his investments in China and to obscure his involvement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Moreover, Elon Musk cannot act within reasonable ethics rules governing conflicts of interest, and he should not be granted a high-level security clearance. Musk cannot and will not put the United States before his companies and personal financial interests. Tesla does extensive manufacturing in China; Tesla’s Shanghai plant produces 50% of Tesla’s global automobile output. Musk cannot serve two masters, specifically communist China and the United States.

   Tesla’s Elon Musk was played by China’s President Xi Jinping. The Chinese leader will continue to pressure Musk in an attempt to win concessions from Trump on issues such as tariffs and Taiwan (just two examples). Musk will fail to influence Trump on these matters as it was central to Trump’s platform that, if elected, he would be “tough on China” in regard to tariffs and imperialistic aggression. Recall in Trump’s first administration he did impose tariffs on China and funded defense to counter the perceived CCP military buildup.

   When Musk fails to win the concessions, Beijing expects Musk to win from the incoming administration, Musk will be out of favor with both the Chinese communists and the incoming Trump administration. In relation to China, Musk will be revealed as having acted with a conflict of interest and to have placed his business interests above the interests of the U.S.

   Is one to believe that Beijing is going to carry water for Musk in an environment where the U.S. is engaged in policy Beijing perceives as hostile? Musk bet on extensive manufacturing in China and that makes Tesla economically vulnerable in the developing geopolitical landscape. Musk’s China business interests make him subject to Chinese influence and perhaps blackmail. Musk is a pawn for Xi Jinping the leader of the second largest economy. Musk cannot be trusted with the nation’s secrets given his conflicted interests and vulnerability to foreign influence.

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