Tesla has been criticized for opening a new showroom in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where the communist regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. Tesla’s first showroom in Xinjiang started operation in the region’s capital city Urumqi, the company announced in a post on its official Weibo account on Dec. 31. ”On the last day of 2021, we meet in Xinjiang,” the U.S. electric carmaker wrote on the Twitter-like platform. “In 2022, let’s start an all-electric journey in Xinjiang!” The post is accompanied by pictures of the opening ceremony, where people hold placards like “Tesla [heart] Xinjiang.” However, the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Jan. 3 urged Tesla and its chairman, Elon Musk, to close the showroom and “cease what amounts to economic support for genocide.” Telsa, which opened its first factory outside the United States in Shanghai in 2019, marks the latest Western business …
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