Commentary
On April 25, as Elon Musk appeared to clinch his $44 billion purchase of social media giant Twitter, his most prominent billionaire space rival and co-founder of marketing giant Amazon, Jeff Bezos, posted on Twitter, “Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?”
Amazon’s huge dependence on China notwithstanding, Bezos’ suggestion was not without basis.
While unreported in the U.S. media, on April 9, Musk made a brief video appearance at a Chinese Embassy propaganda forum led by the new Chinese ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, ostensibly seeking to advance currently non-existent cooperation in space between the United States and China.
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