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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
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?”
