Elon Musk explains why Tesla would never share data with China *or* the U.S.

Elon Musk skipped his preferred platform of Twitter for this latest round of corporate diplomacy, so you know he's serious.

Musk spoke up over the weekend after a Friday report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that China would bar "military staff and employees of key state-owned companies" from using Tesla vehicles. There's concern that they present a national security risk, since Tesla is an American company and its vehicles collect data.

(You might remember the former Trump administration using similar justification when the ex-president threatened to ban TikTok in the U.S. — a legally questionable mandate, it should be said — if the China-based ByteDance refused to sell the social media platform to an American buyer.) Read more...