US President Joe Biden has shown openness to an investigation of star entrepreneur Elon Musk’s foreign affairs by US authorities. “I think Elon Musk’s collaborations and technical relationships with other countries are worth looking at.”Biden said in Washington on Wednesday.
He doesn’t want to imply that Musk is doing anything wrong. However, an exam is in order. Biden was asked if he saw Musk as a threat to national security.
Musk leads the electric car manufacturer Tesla and the space company SpaceX, among others, and recently bought the online service Twitter. China, where the company has a large factory, is an important market for Tesla.
In the roughly $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Musk received money from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which was originally founded in China.
The Washington Post reported a week ago that the Treasury Department had asked Twitter for more information about the role of such investors. In particular, it is about whether they would be able to access information such as user data. Access to data by Americans from third countries is a major concern for US authorities, and they have already taken action against the popular video app Tiktok, which belongs to the Chinese group Bytedance.
Tech billionaire Musk also caused a stir a few weeks ago with two foreign policy advances that drew criticism from him. He proposed making Taiwan a “special administrative region” under Chinese rule. The government in Taipei rejected this as unacceptable.
Musk also called on Ukraine to give up Russia’s illegally annexed Crimea and agree to a UN-controlled referendum in its Russian-occupied territories. (sda/dpa)
Soource :Watson
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