The billionaire tech tycoon has made some formidable enemies in recent months.
is flying high across the world stage making business deals, getting high profile photo-ops, and making enemies out of world leaders along the way.earlier this week to meet with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in a bid to get self-driving cars approved in the country. The multi-billionaire went on a walk-and-talk with Qiang, and had a sit-down photo op with him reminiscent of the kind of side-by-side chats the President of the United States has with his counterparts.
“I wouldn’t call any of this a foreign policy for two different reasons. Number one, he’s not a state number two, I don't think it's intentional. It’s not focused on any sort of cogent international strategy,” Jackson, currently the director of the Democracy and Tech Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, said. “I think every action can be understood as Elon Musk playing out his own interest in a variety of things.
“In Australia, if anything, his response looks a lot more like what we would expect from the prior X, and is fair, actually, I think. It isn’t appropriate for any single country to dictate to the entire world what is and is not accessible on the internet,” Jackson said. “But I don't think you could see that as part of a cohesive narrative.”
“It just looks like chaos. And it's the kind of chaos that’s dangerous because it's not just one idiot that runs a big social media company,” she told The Daily Beast. “It's a billionaire who runs a social media company, and is building SpaceX, and has satellites, and Starlink and has huge defense contracts, and then makes anti-Semitic comments.”Even so, Musk’s powerful platform and billionaire status looms large in the United States. He may soon wield his influence in the U.S.
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