In the wake of Tim Cook and Jack Ma, now Elon Musk is also going to China – 01/04/2023 – Nelson de Sá

Amidst the flight of rulers and technology billionaires to Beijing, the Reuters agency reports that Elon Musk, owner of Testa and Twitter, plans to visit China later this month and has asked for an audience with the new prime minister, Li Qiang —who has just receive Tim Cook, from Apple (image below and here).

It was Li, then general secretary of the CP of Shanghai, who made Tesla’s Chinese factory, today the one with the largest production of electric cars in the world, possible.

Musk and the Chinese government have not yet confirmed the agency’s “exclusive” news, but there are signs of rapprochement. For example, the businessman tweeted that China and other emerging countries have reason to seek de-dollarization.

“It’s a serious problem,” he wrote. “US policy has been very heavy, making countries want to get rid of the dollar. Combined with excessive government spending, forces other countries to absorb a significant part of our inflation.”

The topic began to alarm the Western press, from the Financial Times to Fox News. “The dollar is America’s last superpower,” Fareed Zakaria told CNN. “If it wanes, America will face a reckoning like never before.”

Who is already in China is the mother of Elon Musk, Maye, 74, writer and model, on tour promotional which has become a social media phenomenon in the country, according to the South China Morning Post.

ALIBABA, AIRBUS

On the resurgence in China of another tech billionaire, Jack Ma of Alibaba, the country’s leading financial publication Caixin noted that its “significance cannot be understated”. He indicates that, finally, “Beijing recognizes the benefits that technology companies bring to China’s economy.”

And French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, supposedly to discuss world peace, but taking a delegation of large companies, from Alstom to Airbus, stressed the SCMP.

CHINA AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR NATO

At the last minute, Ursula von der Leyen, from the European Commission, also joined the delegation, immediately making a speech against Beijing and gaining prominence from the New York Times to FT. She is campaigning to take over NATO in October, according to The Sun.

According to the German Die Welt, Von de Leyen’s opponent for command of the military organization, representing the European line most open to Beijing, is Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez —who is also on a trip to China.

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