Elon Musk Versus China

Elon Musk Versus China
Elon Musk celebrates after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 30, 2020. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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On April 25, as Elon Musk appeared to clinch his $44 billion purchase of social media giant Twitter, his most prominent billionaire space rival and co-founder of marketing giant Amazon, Jeff Bezos, posted on Twitter, “Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?”

Rick Fisher
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Rick Fisher is a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
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