Oh bull, they have no ethics or morals and they are not that great at business, in fact bankruptcy heaven in China. CCP will shut it down so a ethnic Chinese Han owned company that is lockstep with the chinese royal family can take over the EV space. They steal. Hey don't take my word for it ask Ma. Ask the Uigers, ask Tibetians. Ask anyone that is out of lockstep. When lockstep requires a Chinese leader EV company Tesla is f'd in China. Just like google, or dupont, or Bell or any other company. To be clear, this post is meant to reflect badly on the CCP. Lots of good friends from China. CCP is running concentration camps...enough said in my book.
In terms of Tesla's Mission it was actually a very necessary, smart and gutsy move on Tesla/ Elon's part. If you recall, at the time, Tesla was not at all as powerful as it is now. Developing a Chinese factory complete with its local research center gave Tesla an impregnable bastion no US short sellers could defeat. Whether the Chinese in the long run will overcome Tesla, who knows? if it helps accelerate the transition to renewable energy, would that be a good or a bad thing?
Probably OT and possibly incorrect too - read at your own comfort level, or join me, have a solid drink, helps loosen possibly blocked attitudes :
TBH the US sold itself decades ago (or rather its elite sold its manufacturing and technical assets to increase their corporate profits, taking advantage of lower manpower and less stringent worker's health and pollution standards). Jack Welch started the ball rolling, agreeing to sharing know how as well as manufacturing way back .. and Jack was hailed as a financial genius ... till recently /sarcasm).
Like Bezos -who? Profit - what for?
Historically the American colonies also took advantage of stolen secrets from the mills of England, check the history...
"CCP is running concentration camps", uh and how are the US different?
Unless we get a government and leaders who have better common sense (and better taste too, please), we are sorta doomed. I recall a decade or two ago many of the US elites' children in my large US city insisted that their children learn Chinese in school as a second language.Did they think the US would rule in China the same way as they have in other countries in the past?
Maybe I'm seeing this from the wrong angle, Tesla is just a Transnational / truly international company - and the whole Earth population finally gets its act together.
