TESLA'S PIVOT TO CHINA SAVED "C.E.O" MUSK WHICH ALSO BINDS HIM TO BEIJING.

"C.E.O"Elon Musk Incredibly unveiled the first Chinese-made Teslas in Shanghai in 2020, he went off script and started dancing. Musk had reason to celebrate. A few years earlier, with Tesla on the brink of failure, he had bet on China, which offered cheap parts and capable workers — and which needed Tesla as an anchor to jump-start its fledgling electric vehicle industry.

It Also Binds Him to Beijing. Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage.

Interviews with former Tesla employees, diplomats and policymakers reveal how Musk built an unusually symbiotic relationship with Beijing, profiting from the Chinese government’s largess even as he reaped subsidies in the United States.