Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a media interview on Friday (7) that conflict in the Taiwan Strait is inevitable, which could cause a 30% loss in global gross domestic product (GDP), and proposed that Taiwan becomes “a special administrative region of China” to prevent conflicts.
Musk said in an interview on Friday that the conflict in the Taiwan Strait is inevitable, but it will bring huge costs to the world and the manufacturing plants of big tech giants like Tesla and Apple in China will face serious consequences. , predicts a loss of around 30% of world GDP.
One of the solutions Musk mentioned is to make Taiwan a reasonably viable special administrative region of China, just like Hong Kong and Macau.
“Not everyone will like it, but I think it’s actually a very likely scenario and there could be a more lenient deal than Hong Kong,” Musk said frankly.
Musk’s remarks, which have always been close to China, have sparked a war of scolding among Taiwanese netizens, saying “too much nonsense”, but this is not the first time Musk has commented on geopolitics.
Musk had previously proposed a peace plan between Ukraine and Russia and launched a poll suggesting that Russia and Ukraine must “reproduce a referendum in the Russian-occupied area”, “recognize Russia’s sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula” and “ensure that the ‘Crimean water supply’ and ‘granting neutrality to Ukraine’.
Musk’s biased remarks on Russia immediately attracted a condemnation chorus from Ukrainian officials, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Tesla (TSLA-USA) fell 6.32% to $ 223.07 per share on Friday. apple (AAPL-USA) fell 3.67 percent to $ 140.09 per share.
