Why China Is Cracking Down On Tesla | Huawei | New Energy Car Market | Elon Musk | Model 3
On April 19, the opening day of the Shanghai International Auto Show, a female Tesla owner stood on top of a Tesla car, shouted and tore up Tesla’s advertisements at the show.
Tesla proposed a variety of solutions, such as offering to complete the inspection, repair, claim insurance, but the owner accepted none of them and was upset by Tesla's response.
On April 20, Shanghai Qingpu District Police announced that Zhang was sentenced to five days of administrative detention for disrupting public order.
The official criticism of Tesla sparked public anger towards Tesla across China.
Tesla's entry into China has led to the global rise of Chinese electric vehicle chains such as BYD, NIO, Lixiang and Xiaopeng, and achieved what the Chinese authorities had hoped.
In 2019, Tesla completed the construction of its Shanghai factory and the first batch of cars were produced.
By the end of 2020, Tesla will have sold 147,000 units in China, accounting for about 30% of its global sales.
As expected, after making a fortune in China, Tesla began to face the iron fist of socialism.
In November 2020, the Chinese Communist Party's official media, Xinhua News Agency, began attacking Tesla for its recall.
In March this year, Tesla was accused by the authorities again of being a "spy car" and was not allowed to be used by the military and state-owned enterprises in sensitive industries and important authorities.
Xi Jinping has repeatedly proposed to challenge the United States in international affairs and become dominant in those aspects, especially in the aspect of new energy and climate change. Tesla seems to be a sacrifice for Xi to achieve his ambition.
In addition, the "Made in China 2025" campaign announced in 2015 also explicitly mentions "energy-saving and new energy vehicles" as a key development field for China’s enterprises.
In a report issued on December 28, 2020, the Voice of America quoted several experts saying that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to catch up with major electric vehicles companies in Europe, United States and Japan. So they are investing huge amounts of subsidies in China's electric vehicle industry and taking advantage of any opportunity to steal the technology.
But why crowd out Tesla now? Perhaps the Chinese government believes that since Tesla has completed its new-energy industry initiation in China, carmakers such as BYD, NIO, Lixiang, Xiaopeng, as well as Baidu and Evergrande will be able to take over Tesla's market share and position in China in the future.
It is also worth noting that almost all of China's major technology companies are now in the electric car business.
In addition to China's ambition to capture the global electric car market, another reason for the authorities to crack down on Tesla is one of Elon Musk's other ventures, the SpaceX satellite network service Starlink.
As SpaceX continues to launch communication satellites into space, Starlink is currently undergoing rapid development, and 6G, represented by satellite broadband networks, may soon be here. Within a few years, all parts of the world will have access to the Internet. In other words, the Chinese Communist Party's internet firewall is likely to fail, which is even more threatening to the Chinese Communist Party.
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