China has power over US trough money in politics.<p>- China is the second largest market for Tesla after the US. Tesla gets $20 billion in revenue from China, recently Tesla has been added into government procurement lists in few provinces.<p>- Tesla has 10s of billions invested in China. Gigafactory Shanghai and now the massive battery factory.<p>Basically Xi has Musk by the balls at this point and Musk is not the only one.