Extremely eye news reporter Zhang Yang
Musk proposed to buy the US social media "Twitter" for $44 billion (equivalent to 288.2 billion yuan), but let China accidentally "lie down".
On April 26, local time in the United States, fox news network in the United States published an article - "When Musk acquired Twitter, Bezos threw out a conspiracy theory".
Musk and Bezos
Amazon founder and former CEO Bezos said that since Tesla CEO Musk has reached a $44 billion acquisition deal with Twitter, will China have influence on Twitter?
Fox News Network screenshot
The cause of the incident was that on April 26, a New York Times reporter tweeted a message to Bezos. The reporter pointed out Tesla's huge market in China and dependence on lithium batteries. In 2021, Tesla's second largest market is China after the United States, and Chinese battery manufacturers are the main suppliers of Tesla electric vehicles. Finally, he asked, china had "little influence over the social platform" before, and because of Musk's acquisition, "could this change?" ”
Subsequently, Bezos responded on Twitter: "Interesting question. ”
Two hours later, Bezos changed his mind, claiming that China may not have gained influence over Twitter.
However, some netizens scolded Bezos on Twitter: "Come on, we all know that you are jealous." Because Amazon lost the Chinese market. ”
Twitter building
After nearly 27 years at Amazon, Bezos resigned as Amazon's ceo last summer and became the company's executive chairman.
For years, Bezos and Musk have been arguing with each other and attacking each other's companies. On the 5th of this month, Forbes released the 2022 Global Billionaires List. Among them, Musk's wealth ranked first, surpassing Bezos for the first time in 4 years. The struggle between the world's richest men even broke through the skyline, and in order to compete with Musk's Starlink project, on the same day, Bezos also announced the latest progress of his Project Kuiper.
According to the news just obtained, at the regular press conference of the Chinese Foreign Ministry held on the 26th, a Reuters reporter asked that Tesla recently reached an agreement with Twitter to acquire Twitter, and whether China will use this to influence Twitter to promote its national media reports?
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said: "I have noticed that you are very good at guessing, but there is no factual basis. ”