Reproach comes as Taiwan says it has detected a large number of Chinese aircraft crossing into its air defence identification zone

Reproach comes as Taiwan says it has detected a large number of Chinese aircraft crossing into its air defence identification zone

Taiwan is “not for sale”, the island’s foreign minister has said in a stern rebuke to Elon Musk, who asserted Taiwan was an integral part of China, again wading into the thorny issue relations between Beijing and Taipei. His comments came as dozens of Chinese warships and planes were detected near Taiwan for suspected military exercises.

Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X formerly known as Twitter, as well as the Tesla electric car company and SpaceX, made the comments to the All-In Summit in Los Angeles uploaded to YouTube this week.

“Their [Beijing’s] policy has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because … the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force,” he said.

  • echo64@lemmy.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    how dumb do you have to be to even make the comparison to Hawaii, the main has the braincells of a gnat

    • matchphoenix@feddit.ukEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      This is not the first time Musk, who has a large Tesla factory in Shanghai, has riled Taiwan.

      Last October, he suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing, drawing a similarly strong reprimand from Taiwan.

      As with everything in his life, you just need to look at Elmo’s finances to understand his actions.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Not even an expert. Just a straight up shyster who had a lengthy string of luck with the marks

          • Buffalox@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Sorry I meant a narcissistic conman. But I can see that shyster means somewhat the same. For sure it’s easier to be a shyster if you are a narcissist.

  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
    283·
    1 year ago

    reunification

    Anyone who uses this term in this context reveals themselves as a Chinese Communist Party propagandist. The People’s Republic of China has never held Taiwan; it’s not “reunification” to conquer and annex land you’ve never controlled but always wanted, it’s imperialism.

  • Hubi@feddit.de
    231·
    1 year ago

    How is this guy picking the worst possible standpoints in every situation? It’s almost impressive.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    131·
    1 year ago

    that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because … the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force,”

    Jesus Christ, what a sociopath. So the ability to take it by force, should justify it? Elron Musk has zero empathy and zero morals. His existence is absolutely a net negative for humanity.