A few days ago, Tesla founder Musk proposed that Taiwan should become China's "special administrative region" to avoid cross-strait conflicts. In response, the former editor-in-chief of " Global Times " Hu Xijin commented that Musk's words "represents the general desire of the business community to not want war to seriously impact the economy and destroy people's livelihood. This also reflects the world's basic understanding that Taiwan is part of China and that cross-strait reunification is the general trend. He also predicts that Musk's remarks will dissatisfie the Taiwanese authorities and the American political elite, and from the perspective of the political atmosphere in the United States, it is not ruled out that he will encounter some trouble in the future.
As expected, Musk just mentioned Democratic Progressive Party officials clamored to boycott products produced by Tesla indefinitely, and were retaliated by the US government. According to Reuters , on October 13, local time, in a document submitted by Twitter company to the court, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating Musk, but the report did not mention why Musk was investigated by US federal agencies. However, outside public opinion believes that Musk publicly expressed his concern. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the political views on the Taiwan issue were retaliated against.
Early this month, Musk proposed his own "peace plan" to stop the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, including: Under the supervision of the United Nations, Donetsk , Lugansk , Zaporoze , Khlsson , and Khlsson re-entered a "referendum"; make Crimea " officially become part of Russia "; Ensure the safety of water supply in Crimea; Ukraine remains neutral. However, this suggestion has triggered strong criticism from Ukrainian people, including Ukrainian President Zelensky. Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andre Melnik replied to Musk in slanderous words. Before this, Hu Xijin reminded Musk not to believe too much in Western freedom of speech. If he does not brake, he may put his business empire in danger.
However, Musk still let himself go , and in an interview with the British " Financial Times ", proposed to "set a reasonable and feasible special administrative region for Taiwan". He bluntly stated that if there is a conflict in the Taiwan Strait, Tesla will be involved, Apple will also be in great trouble, and the global economy will suffer 30% of the losses. This suggestion is to some extent in line with the basic policies and policies of "peaceful reunification, one country, two systems " that mainland China has long adhered to. In response, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang posted a message on social media, thanking Ma Skr’s appeal for cross-strait peace and his idea on establishing a “Taiwan Special Administrative Region”. My Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning also said that we hope and are happy to see more and more people understand and support “peaceful reunification, one country, two systems”.
The Financial Times commented that Musk may realize that business decisions cannot no longer consider security and geopolitical issues. Therefore, he tried to make peace suggestions on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the Taiwan issue from a third party perspective. However, this rational voice has attracted fierce and fierce Ukraine. Criticize, accusing Musk of being "not constructive", but rather, it is to make Kiev "cede land for peace" and surrender to Putin . However, the Ukrainian soldiers who were fighting on the front line of the battlefield discovered that when they were fighting fiercely with the Russian army, they suddenly found that the " Starlink " network could not be used. The communication was interrupted without warning, which triggered panic calls from Ukrainian soldiers, claiming that this move would cause disastrous consequences.
In fact, it was already in Russia On the third day of Ross' "special military operation" against Ukraine, the Ukrainian vice prime minister called out to Musk through social platforms, requesting the provision of "Starlink". Less than 11 hours later, Musk replied that he had started "Starlink" services in the Ukrainian region and assisted the Ukrainian army in maintaining the operation of infrastructure such as communications. On October 14, Musk said that he could not continue to pay for Ukraine's "Starlink" plan. He spent nearly $20 million a month to maintain Ukraine's satellite service, and he also joked that he was just "get out of order."
In fact, Starlink's service to Ukraine is not completely free. Data released by the US Department of Defense shows that about 85% of the 25,000 Starlink terminals supplied to Ukraine are paid in full or partially by the US, UK, Polish governments or other entities, and there is also about 30% of the network connection fee. Therefore, the senior management of Pentagon angrily compared this to "making a fortune out of nothing", accusing Musk of "acting a hero" on other people's money, and even issued a bill worth tens of millions of dollars a month. Bryant, chairman of the cross-party Russian group of the British Parliament and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, threatened that it is not ruled out that sanctions were imposed on Musk in the future because he "played two-sided methods" among major powers.
Seeing that Musk was about to stop providing Starlink services to Ukraine, senior Ukrainian officials began to extend an olive branch to Musk and touted his various contributions to Ukraine. Seeing that Ukraine had already surrendered to Mussurance, the DPP authorities, who once clamored to boycott Tesla, seemed to be afraid. Previously, Taiwan’s military chief Qiu Guozheng also said that the Taiwan military will never buy Tesla again. But on the day Musk said he would stop providing Starlink services to Ukraine, Taiwan denied that it had said it would boycott Tesla.
