China Warns Elon Musk Against Sharing Of COVID-19 Origin Theory

"Recently, the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in the Chinese city of Wuhan has surfaced and is again being discussed globally."

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"Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, has been warned by China against sharing this theory after he posted about it on social media."

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"A Chinese state-run newspaper, the Global Times, warned Musk that he might be "breaking the pot of China,'' similar to the idiom "to bite the hand that feeds you.""

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"China is Tesla's second biggest market and the EV manufacturer has an extensive factory and tech campus in Shanghai."

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"Musk suggested that Fauci had brought in funds for research through the organization, EcoHealth."

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"It was awarded almost $8 million in federal research grants to research bat coronaviruses in China."

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"The U.S. Department of Energy and even the FBI reached a similar conclusion that the COVID-19 pandemic might have began in a Wuhan laboratory."

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"The Chinese Communist Party or the CCP have received this development critically as it is a sensitive matter."

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"Tesla is in a specially privileged position in China, because its factory produced 711,000 cars last year i.e. 52% of the company's worldwide output."

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