How to view Elon Musk's praise for Chinese Government

How to view Elon Musk's praise for Chinese Government

Carl j chan

In fact, part of what Elon Musk said is true. China is essentially government capitalism or power-crony capitalism. The Chinese government has two faces when facing foreign capital and when facing ordinary Chinese people. The CCP used to care a lot about international opinion, but now I think they don't care so much. The CCP cares a lot about people's opinions, so they will put dissidents in jail. For many things, you have to look at the essence of a society from a cultural perspective rather than an institutional perspective.

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Elon Musk hails China ‘more responsible’ than US in bizarre pro-Beijing confession

ELON MUSK has praised China's Government for being "very responsive" to its people's needs and happiness, suggesting they could be "better" than the US in addressing them. By DYLAN DONNELLY

00:21, Mon, Jan 4, 2021 | UPDATED: 09:16, Mon, Jan 4, 2021

Musk: First of all, my experience with the government of China is that they actually are very responsive to the people, in fact, possibly more responsive to the happiness of people than in the US. And when I meet with Chinese government officials, they're always very concerned about this. Are people going to be happy about a thing? Is this going to actually serve the benefit of the people? It seems ironic, but even though you have sort of a single-party system, they really actually seem to care a lot about the well-being of the people. In fact, they're maybe even more sensitive to public opinion than what I see in the US.