According to the news released by the "China Association of Automobile Manufacturers" on the 28th of this month, in accordance with the "Several Provisions on Automotive Data Security Management" and the "Security Requirements for Automotive Data Processing of Information Security Technology" and other relevant regulations, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers and the National Computer Network Emergency Technology Processing and Coordination Center have organized compliance testing of newly listed intelligent networked vehicle data provided by automobile manufacturers in accordance with the principle of "voluntary inspection by enterprises" since November last year.
The test results show that 76 models from six companies, including BYD, Li and Tesla, have met the four compliance requirements for automotive data security set by the mainland. It is worth noting that all the models currently produced by Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory have passed the review of safety compliance requirements, making Tesla the only foreign company in China that meets the requirements for automotive data security compliance. The emergence of this news added more drama to Musk, who arrived in Beijing on the 28th, and also turned public opinion to US Secretary of State Blinken, who also has a request for China, but is diametrically opposed to Musk in behavior.
In fact, Musk's lightning visit to China has caused many foreign media to speculate that it is to let the car driving data collected in China "go to sea" and allow Tesla to better train unmanned driving technology. Judging from the results, Musk can be said to have gained a lot, while Blinken can only be described as "empty-handed". Blinken's visit to China is ostensibly to "seek dialogue", but in fact he has put forward many very unreasonable demands to our side, such as stopping aid to Russia, "curbing excess capacity", "reducing trade with Russia", "no longer changing the status quo in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait", and the cliché fentanyl issue.
In order to achieve his goal, Blinken continued to put pressure on the mainland through the media before leaving, but China has seen this kind of "empty card" trick countless times. In response, China not only did not agree to the other side's demands, but further clarified the "red line" between China and the United States. is also a leading figure who has attracted great attention from the political and economic circles in the United States, on the one hand, he is happily cooperating with China, and on the other hand, he is frequently deflated, and Musk and Blinken's respective "China trips" are in a mixed state.
The core reason for this situation is that there are fundamental differences in the two sides' perceptions of China. Musk, who advocates free competition, always believes that China not only has broad market opportunities, but also Chinese counterparts are very good, and the most important thing is that Tesla never shy away from competition, which allows Musk to look at his relationship with China from beginning to end with a positive eye. Taking automotive data security as an example, after the promulgation of the safety regulations in the mainland, Tesla kept all the driving data obtained in China in China, strictly abided by the laws, regulations and requirements formulated by the mainland, and highly cooperated to lay a solid foundation for Tesla to pass the review in the future.
As a core member of the Biden administration, Blinken has engaged in double-faced tricks every time he has an open and frank dialogue with the top level of the mainland, giving full play to the "backsliding", which not only does not help build a stable China-US relationship, but also erodes the remaining national credibility of the Biden administration. The harvest of Musk's visit to China will inevitably receive a lot of criticism in the American public opinion circles.
There are even extreme anti-China forces who use this to criticize Musk for being "pro-China". However, the US elite and strategic circles must realize that it is absolutely unfeasible to deal with China by playing tricks, and that only "sincerity" can make Sino-US relations more stable, and only by working with China in the same direction can the contradictions between the two countries be truly resolved.