In a new book, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said he “chased the Chinese dollar and ruled China’s communist rule as CEO of companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, to promote his own interests. They embarrassed those.” He accused Iron Musk of “they were able to supply them with shame.”
Musk, the richest person in the world, is Donald Trump’s leading donor and close advisor, and currently works at the heart of the presidential administration. Federal government.
Disapproved, the cotton quote was made in 2021, when Musk told China’s state television that he “is very confident about Tesla’s future in China” and “I am confident that China’s future is great.” .
Trump has long attacked China at his trade base and implemented tariffs on Chinese products, but recently Tiktok, a Chinese-owned social media app that Congress and Joe Biden banned for national security reasons. The position has been changed. Orders prohibited, delayed implementation.
Musk’s interest and investment in China is widely debated, contributing to speculation that if the parent company, the parent company, admits pressure to sell, he could be involved in Tiktok’s US purchases . Although Musk said in a comment released last week that he was not interested in doing so now.
Cotton is a foreign policy and voice China critic who openly criticised Trump’s changing position in Tiktok last month.
The Senator’s first book, The Only Strong: reversed the left plot to thwart American power, perhaps hinting at higher positions after Trump left the national political scene. His new book, Seven Things I Can’t Say About China, will be published in the US next week. The Guardian got a copy.
His books include Musk in the American “Technology Titan” group. He accused him of “slayering the Chinese dollar,” and says he “embarrassing the Chinese communist rulers.”
Cotton writes: “Microsoft founder Bill Gates praised the Chinese dictator and said, “I am moving how difficult President XI is… he is very surprising.”
“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought a copy of Xi’s book, The Governance of China, handed it over to employees to “want them to understand socialism that has the distinctive characteristics of China.” ”
The following year (2015) at a White House state dinner honoring XI, Zuckerberg oddly asked the communist dictator to name his unborn child.
Cotton continues: “Elon Musk told the Chinese state television. “We are confident that China’s future is amazing, China is the world’s largest economy and is heading for many future prosperity. It’s.” ”
Musk made these comments in 2021 in an interview with China Central Television.
Four years later, Musk’s obsession with the government centre, accessing sensitive government systems and categorizing clearly immunized information, prompting a growing concern.
Last month, U.S. Army General Russell L. Honoré, who retired last month, used a column in the New York Times to create a business such as a $1.4 billion loan from a Chinese bank to be used to build a Tesla plant in Beijing. We emphasized the above benefits. The headline is, “Elon Musk is a national security risk.”
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But Cotton broadened his vision to include US companies outside the tech sector, saying, “Silicon Valley is not the only accomplice in China’s crime. A shocking number of American companies have been working to the party’s Uyghur slave labor They are conspiring to use the
The listed companies appointed by Congress in this context are the US giants who “may have Nike, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Campbell Soup Company, Costco, Patagonia and Tommy Hilfiger have adopted forced labor in their supply chains.” “It’s expensive.”
The senator has also criticized Apple for lobbying Coca-Cola and Nike “in violation of laws that prevent imports committed in China’s slave labor.” Nike’s lobbying “is not surprising,” he wrote, “then CEO John Donahoe said in 2021 that “Nike is a Chinese and Chinese brand.” When it comes to Chinese genocide, Nike’s slogan might be “just do that.” ”
Despite writing at length about Tiktok, he repeatedly advises readers to boycott all Chinese apps and remove them from their children’s phones, but cotton has also said that he and his policies regarding Tiktok or China He won’t elect Trump because of criticism about rhetoric.
But the senator has been diagonally criticizing Trump for China’s investment in US educational institutions.
“Chinese senior communists purchased the New York Military Academy, Donald Trump’s alma mater, and later appointed some of his Chinese peers to its board,” Cotton wrote.
Its sale was finalised in 2015, a year before Trump began climbing his mountains in the White House with two terms, two perches, 34 criminal convictions and full Republican rule.
But as Cotton writes, “The Department of Defense has given the academy hundreds of thousands of dollars since its acquisition of China.”
