Chinese vice president urges Musk to contribute to strengthening bilateral relations

He was met with by China’s vice president, Han Geng, while proposing to US companies to “take the opportunity” and strengthen their economic relations with . During a visit to the US as a “special envoy” of Chinese President Shi Jinping, Mr. Khan met with Elon Musk and other head of American companies yesterday (19.1.2025), explained the news agency New China. Han Jeng is scheduled to attend today the inauguration ceremony of elected President Trump, reminded the agency. CORVERSE Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who runs Tesla (electric cars) and SpaceX (space), while being the main shareholder of the social networking site X, invested millions of dollars to support Mr. Trump’s campaign. The multi-billionaire has, by the way, not a modest network of supporters in China, where Tesla has installed one of the “megafactories”, its huge factories, and competes with Chinese car companies. At his meeting with Elon Musk yesterday (19.1.2025) Han Jeng stressed how “welcome” Beijing considers American companies and invited them to “take the opportunity to share the fruits of China’s development”, according to the agency. CORVERSE Elon Musk, for his part, assured that Tesla is “ready to deepen its cooperation with China in terms of investment” and “play an active role in US and China’s economic and commercial exchanges, always in New China. In his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly announced that he would proceed with massive tariff increases in many imported Chinese products. However, at the same time, he said open to talks with the Chinese president Shi Jinping. The American president-elect and the Chinese president discussed by phone Friday and assured that they would seek to improve the relationship of the two rival major forces. Han Jeng also met yesterday (19.1.2025) with U.S. elected vice president J. D. Vance, noted New China. Source: RES – ICM