“Hope @elonmusk can also ask the #CCP to open @X to its people. Perhaps he thinks banning it is a good policy, like turning off @Starlink to thwart #Ukraine’s counterstrike against #Russia,” Taiwanese foreign minister Joseph Wu said today on X, which Musk owns.
“Listen up, #Taiwan is not part of the #PRC & certainly not for sale!”
Musk said that because he has met with “senior leadership at many levels in China,” he has “a pretty good understanding” of the country for an outsider.
“The fundamental thing here is really Taiwan. China has really since for half a century or so — longer at this point — their policy has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to, like, Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China — mostly because the U.S. Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification-effort force.”
- In his tweet today, Wu also referred to recent reports that Musk had limited the Ukrainian military’s access to Starlink as Kyiv planned an attack on Russian forces that, Musk believed, would lead to a catastrophic escalation of the war. Musk’s work to provide Starlink to Ukraine has significantly bolstered Kyiv’s ability to continue its fight against Russia.
- Taiwanese digital-affairs minister Audrey Tang demurred last year when a National Review reporter asked about Starlink’s potential role in the construction of a satellite network through which Taiwan could maintain contact with the world during a crisis.
On the 100th anniversary of the CCP’s founding, Musk praised China, raving in a tweet about “the economic prosperity that China has achieved.”
In 2021, Musk took China’s then–ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang on a drive in a Tesla vehicle and later participated in an event that Qin hosted. This year, after the Chinese official was appointed foreign minister, Musk met him in Beijing. The Chinese-government summary of the meeting said that Musk had said “the interests of the United States and China are interlinked, like conjoined twins inseparable from each other.”
14 Sep 2023
Taiwan claps back at Elon Musk after China comments
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that Taiwan was “not for sale” after Musk referred to Beijing’s official position that the self-ruled island is part of its territory.
Wu also said Musk should ask the Chinese Communist Party to allow X in China, where it is currently banned.
“Perhaps he thinks banning it is a good policy, like turning off @Starlink to thwart Ukraine’s counterstrike against Russia,” Wu said, referring to Musk’s decision to deny Ukraine’s request to activate his Starlink satellite network to aid an attack on Russia’s fleet in the port city of Sevastopol.
“From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because … the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force,” Musk said in remarks at the All-In Summit that were uploaded on YouTube.
Taiwan rejects Beijing’s claims over the island, which stem from the outcome of the Chinese civil war, and opinion polls indicate most Taiwanese do not wish to join with the Chinese mainland.
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