Elon Musk is a rare pro-China voice on the right. The reason why is quite simple: his company, Tesla, is doing big business in China.
Human Rights
The Chinese Communist Party is engaged in a campaign of forcible assimilation targeting Uyghur Muslims that many regard as genocidal.
There’s no such thing as “clean cobalt.” Cobalt extracted under slave-like conditions is mixed into supply from large-scale miners.
While Israel and Hamas have been accused of war crimes, international institutions will have difficulty holding either side to account.
China is seeking not merely to resist but also dismantle a foundational idea of the post-Cold War order: the universality of human rights.