Recently, at the Shanghai Auto Show, a female car owner from Henan Province stood on top of the car and made a scene because of the “brake failure” of the Tesla, and the Chinese Communist Party and official media started to beat up the Tesla. So Tesla, a technologically advanced electric smart car, instantly became a problematic car in the Chinese Communist Party’s “Great and Powerful Country”.
You know, Tesla is the most favorable conditions for the introduction of the Chinese Communist Party. The Tesla super factory in Shanghai was given land at one-tenth of the market price, a 10 billion yuan loan with low interest rates, and Tesla is the only 100% foreign-owned auto company in China.
So, how did the CCP change its face so quickly?
The Chinese Communist Party changed its face because it could not steal Tesla’s technology. Tesla’s electric smart car, after Apple’s smartphone, is another high-tech product that leads the world economy. In the words of the boss Elon Musk, Tesla is not a car, but a computer that can drive.
The Chinese Communist Party’s usual tactic is to rob if you can’t steal, but it’s too bad to rob openly, so they created the “woman on the roof of the car” incident as a cover to force Tesla to hand over the data, and with it, the technology.
Tesla has no choice but to have global vice president Fan Lin come forward and say that the data collected in China will strictly comply with China’s laws and regulations on data management and achieve local storage. Previously Elon Musk also said: “We have a strong desire to keep any user privacy information confidential”, “Tesla will never provide the U.S. government with any vehicle data it collects in China or other countries”.
Even so, the CCP tailored Tesla’s draft “Security Requirements for Data Collected by Information Security Technology Networked Vehicles,” which requires Tesla to cooperate with the CCP in data transmission, data storage, and data crossing borders.
Looking at the data required by CCP, it includes customer personal information (such as cell phone, face, license plate, etc.), in-vehicle audio, video and images, vehicle route and location, roads, buildings, terrain, traffic participants, i.e. pedestrians, people using non-motorized vehicles, people driving and riding in motor vehicles, people using other means of transportation, etc. collected through sensors such as radar. It must also hand over the format of the transmitted data, encryption methods, etc.
The Chinese Communist Party does not want these data to protect the privacy of the users, because in the Chinese Communist Party’s “awesome country”, people have no privacy to speak of. The real purpose of the Chinese Communist Party is to steal Tesla’s advanced technology and to prevent Tesla from capturing the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party and transmitting them abroad.
Indeed, the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party are everywhere in broad daylight in China and are too easy to be filmed. In my early years, I witnessed two or three strong men kidnap a weak woman into a van at an intersection east of the Beijing train station and then take off. The men moved so fast that it was too late to see their faces or remember their license plate numbers.
After asking the security guards who were present, I learned that they were plainclothes public security officers who are here every day to catch people petitioning in Beijing. Imagine if the author had been driving a Tesla, the crimes of these plainclothes public security officers would have been recorded. Can the Chinese Communist Party not be afraid? Can the Chinese Communist Party not let Tesla hand over its data and technology?
It was the news that Tesla was going to hand over its data that affected Tesla’s sales results in April. According to the new energy vehicle sales data released by the Passenger Association, Tesla China’s sales dropped to 25,845 units in April, down 27 percent from the previous year. Tesla salespeople also confirmed that after the “woman on the roof” incident, many customers who had test-driven and were ready to buy Tesla gave up their purchases for fear that the vehicle data would be handed over to the Chinese Communist Party.
This is very similar to Apple’s move in late February 2018 to transfer iCloud data stored in the U.S. to servers in China and store the encryption key to unlock iCloud accounts in China, while handing over iCloud services to state-owned enterprise Cloud Guizhou for operation.
As a result of this, Apple has made Chinese customers’ contacts, call logs, calendars, bookmarks, emails, memos, voice memos, photos and videos on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, app data, documents, text messages, MMS, music, iMessage messages, FaceTime records, ringtones, home screen and app arrangements, settings in All of the information on the iPad and iPod touch, including photos and videos, application data, documents, text messages, MMS messages, music, iMessage messages, FaceTime records, ring tones, home screen and application arrangements, settings, and purchases made through Apple services, is monitored by the Communist Party.
For this reason, many of Apple’s high-end customers, no longer following the purchase of new models, have abandoned Apple. the end of 2018 to early 2019, Apple shares continued to decline, and on January 3, 2019, Apple shares plunged 10%, the largest decline in six years. The main reason for the plunge was a decline in sales in China, for which Apple had to reduce the prices of its products in the Chinese market. This is the price Apple paid for kneeling to the Chinese Communist Party.
Apple knelt to the Chinese Communist Party back then, what about Tesla today?
Tesla boss Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, and in addition to the Tesla smart car, it has many other projects such as the SPACE X technology leader, whose energy far exceeds that of Apple back then. Clearly, Tesla has the strength not to kneel down to the Chinese Communist Party. And the fact that Tesla has stopped its plans to expand its Shanghai mega-factory and paid off its 10 billion yuan loan fully reveals that Tesla has the strength not to kneel down.
In fact, Tesla does not need to kneel to the Chinese Communist Party. Although the Tesla factory is built in Shanghai, China, nearly 70% of its components are made in Taiwan. Although the battery is made by Ningde Time of China, there are better Panasonic or LG batteries to choose from. You can see that Tesla is not so hard to leave China!
It is a pity that Apple has knelt down to the Chinese Communist Party, betrayed its customers, lost sales and became an accomplice of the Chinese Communist Party. With Apple’s previous experience, what will Tesla choose?
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