"Twitter" asked Trump to press China is a risk or faint?

Wonderful introduction: Trump's trade war is unpopular on a global scale. The fuelling of the fire on Musk may not bring him the gift of expectation, but it is entirely possible that the opposite will happen.

On March 9, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk's tweets fired. According to foreign media reports, boldly outspoken, Musk responded to U.S. President Trump's tweet on the previous day's tweet and asked: “Do you think that the United States and China should have equal and fair car trade policies?”

In its view, China imposes a 25% tariff on imported cars, which is 10 times that of the United States on importing cars. This is unfair. Musk stated: "Generally I oppose import tariffs, but the current Policies make things even more difficult. It's like wearing lead shoes to participate in the Olympics running competition."

This kind of innuendo is self-evident. In the past year, Musk has been anxious about Tesla’s domestic production in China. In accordance with the current joint venture requirements of China's automobile industry policy, joint ventures between Chinese and foreign car companies must adhere to the 50:50 joint venture model, but Musk’s ambition is more than that. He hopes to build a factory solely to protect the core technology and not to share it. profit.

Earlier, there were reports that the reason why the cooperation between Tesla and the Shanghai Municipal Government collapsed in June last year was the reason.

Therefore, as the analysis of foreign media said, Musk's move is trying to "tempt" Trump in the implementation of automobile trade protection policy in the United States, and ultimately pressure the Chinese government. Trump quoted Musk’s tweets when he announced the new tariff policy and said that he plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on other countries. “We are changing some things. We just want to be fair.”

However, despite the ardent response from the President, the Chinese industry still can not help but ask: Isn’t Marsk playing a political card at this time, is he in a hurry and will he be able to help push Tesla to achieve sole ownership?

In fact, as early as June 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission stated that China hopes to relax the 50% limit on holdings. In September last year, foreign media also reported that the Chinese government plans to cancel the restriction on foreign-invested electric vehicle business in the free trade zone as early as this year. This degree is considered to be a high-tech, energy-saving, environmental-friendly and emerging industry like Tesla. "The foreign company has a green light.

On January 24 this year, Liu He, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Central Leading Group of Finance and Economics, made clear in the 48th Davos World Economic Theory that at present China is taking measures to orderly reduce tariffs on automobile imports.

Judging from the performance of the Chinese government, it can be said that whether it is to liberalize the proportion of joint ventures or to reduce auto import tariffs is a matter of time, and it is expected that substantial breakthroughs will soon be achieved. Musk’s domestic plan is also a three-year plan. That is to say, he has enough psychological expectations that Tesla will truly realize the process that domestically needs.

In this way, Tesla's domestic production is actually a matter of course, and Musk hopes to rely on political diplomacy to speed up domestic production, obviously not wise. You know, once you are involved in a trade war between the two countries, you will only increase the risk of increasing the number of variables.

Trump, who sympathized with Muskeber, was known as a typical businessman, but this did not prevent him from playing with politicians and used the economy as a political bargaining chip.

On the afternoon of March 8, U.S. time, Trump officially signed an administrative order to impose tariffs of 25% and 10% on imports of steel and aluminum products, which not only triggered European Union countries’ worries and strong resistance to the outbreak of a global trade war, but also suffered. U.S. politicians are bombarded by big political figures.

As far as China is concerned, it is naturally impossible to stay abreast of it. If necessary, it does not exclude the manufacturing industry, led by the auto industry, as an anti-restriction measure to deal with the US trade war threat.

More importantly, Trump's trade war is unpopular on a global scale. The fuelling of the fire on Musk may not be able to bring him a gift package that he expects, but it is entirely possible that it will be counterproductive and inflaming.