China is Tesla’s second-largest sales market outside of the U.S., and accounts for nearly one-quarter of the electric-car maker’s business.
Tesla founder Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to buy Twitter has led to a wave of concern that Tesla’s rapid expansion in China will make Twitter TWTR more vulnerable to pressure from the Chinese government.
Musk’s offer was accepted by the board of Twitter on Monday, a move that took many analysts by surprise. Shareholders still have to vote on Musk’s bid, and the deal is also subject to regulatory approval. In response to speculation that China would seek to interfere with Twitter under Musk’s leadership, China’s foreign ministry issued a denial Tuesday, saying such speculation was baseless.
Twitter does not label public broadcasters such as the BBC in the U.K. and NPR in the U.S. as “state-affiliated” because they have editorial independence. In 2020, Twitter removed approximately 23,000 accounts it said were linked to the Chinese Communist party. In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Twitter also labeled tweets by RT and Sputnik as Russian-affiliated state media.
“They wouldn’t use it as a bargaining chip unless they have to,” Fang wrote in an online newsletter this week. While the Chinese government clamps down on social-media at home — deleting controversial posts and restricting accounts on its in-land Twitter equivalent, Weibo — he noted that China would be skittish about opening its internet up to Twitter.
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