Musk, founder of Tesla, a major American electric vehicle manufacturer, proposed a plan for China to set Taiwan as a "special administrative region" in response to the tension in the Taiwan Strait. Wang Xinwen, director of the Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Center of Changhua Normal University, said in an interview with the Hong Kong China Review News Agency that 75% of Tesla's electric vehicles' supply chain comes from Taiwan. Musk certainly does not want conflicts in the Taiwan Strait to affect business development. This also reflects the general voice of businessmen in some aspects. Businessmen will make this appeal, which means they have smelled the scent of the war.
In response to Musk's speech on the cross-strait situation, Wang Xinwen said that global capital parties, institutional legal persons, businessmen and enterprises are not happy to see cross-strait conflicts, because mainland China is the world's second largest economy and a world factory. If affected by the war, the global economy of will inevitably fall sharply; Taiwan is a major center in the semiconductor technology industry, mastering key strategic materials such as chips, which will affect the whole body. Therefore, the stability of the cross-strait situation is the common expectation of international business people.
Wang Xinwen pointed out that 75% of the supply chain of Tesla electric vehicles founded by Musk comes from Taiwan and has a factory in Shanghai, so he naturally does not want wars between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. Musk's speech starts from the perspective of economic development , which is indeed very reasonable. For example, many countries in the Middle East have had wars before, and the economy will probably regress for one or twenty years. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait have caused the pulse of international industries, and avoiding war has become the common idea of businessmen.
Wang Xinwen said that it is worth noting that when merchants make relevant speeches, they usually represent that they have smelled the scent of the war. Musk used to be famous for advocating democracy and freedom, but his speech on cross-strait issues was contrary to the rulers of the Western camp, which means that merchants judged the current practices of the Western camp, which is causing the risk of war conflicts to rise. Therefore, they can only call from the perspective of economic development to serve as a buffer under political confrontation.
He said that of course Musk's speech represents the views of global businessmen to some extent, not just from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, because it is viewed from the perspective of economic development and corporate development, rather than from the political perspective. The economy may be a lubricant to reduce conflicts. In fact, if the two sides of the Taiwan Strait want to achieve a coordination between the two sides, the concept of "special zone" is relatively out of reach, but maybe we can think about the concept of setting up an free trade zone in Taiwan.
Wang Xinwen pointed out that we can think about slowly extending from economic integration to ethnic integration. Through the joint construction of an economic ecosystem, we can slowly achieve communication and coordination in institutional or ideological aspects, which may stabilize the cross-strait situation and avoid war conflicts. This may be the direction Musk expressed it.
However, Wang Xinwen mentioned that the current tensions between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are actually related to the United States' suppression of China. Taiwan is sandwiched between China and the United States, but has not tried to establish a centralized and harmonious role, so that the interaction between the two sides is somewhat restrained by the United States, especially the United States has recently tightened the ban on China's technology, which has left the two sides with little room for integration. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to whether the influence of big businessmen such as Musk can be effective.
Source: Hong Kong China Review Network
