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Audrey Shaw's avatar

Somebody translate this to simple English for me!!! Sounds like corruption and espionage, but I’m not sure.

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Graham Smith's avatar

It's not clear how much of SpaceX is owned by Chinese government entities, but it is NOT zero.

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June  Kahn's avatar

My conclusion matches yours, Audrey.

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Ben Prickril's avatar

This is what we mean when we say there are no guardrails. In a normal (non-Trump) world the FTC, the courts, the FBI, the DOD watchdogs, the MSM and others would be all over this. Unfortunately our Great-Leader-in-Cognitive-Decline has zero awareness of it. Oy vey.

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Graham Smith's avatar

If we nationalized SpaceX, all these concerns about foreign ownership and the malign intentions of Elon Musk would fall by the wayside.

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June  Kahn's avatar

Very scary!

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Isadora Eze's avatar

But TikTok is a threat we're told.

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Stephen Alexander's avatar

there's no comparison - both are a threat.

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Isadora Eze's avatar

The point my quip failed to convey is that the U.S. government should use the same reasoning for TikTok to ban Space X, but it likely will not.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

I get your ironic tone but like Stephen must point out TikTok is watching YOU. It knows when you cry, when you sleep and when you poop because apparently we take our phones into the bathroom with us.

Space X is weird because China and the U.S. are adversaries and we should behave that way, with diplomacy of course. We do not let adversaries in the backdoor when everyone is out on the front lawn. When we get back into the house, things look normal but now, once again, there's someone watching YOU and you cannot hide.

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Rolyac's avatar

Wow! Once again you shine a light on the deep, dark secrets that permeate our country. Not only is trump turning the U.S. economy into the Chinese model of 'state controlled capitalism', as well as selling 'low grade AI chips' to China, (for an export tax), thus weakening national security...but we are also now inviting China to the table. And for what? The almighty dollar. Thanks Musk Watch.

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Andy's avatar

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Small Wars Journal

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Hunter Richards's avatar

I hear that since SpaceX ships have a tendency to explode...excuse me, have "unscheduled rapid disassemblies", Ping An is interested more in using them as missiles rather than as spaceships.

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