Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told the legislature that the military will no longer purchase Tesla automobiles after CEO Elon Musk’s comments over the weekend supporting a Chinese takeover of the country.
Despite this ongoing torrent of criticism from around the world, the national security law remains in place, although Beijng’s puppet chief executive John Leeauthoritarian regulations on top of the China-imposed law have been put on hold until the end of the year.
“The world has seen clearly what happened to Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s economic and social vibrancy abruptly ended under Beijing’s totalitarian rule,” the official said.at Tuesday’s legislative session that Taiwan’s military “will definitely not make any more purchases” from Tesla. Some Taiwanese were sufficiently incensed by Musk’s comments to demand a larger boycott of Tesla automobiles, which have been selling fairly well in Taiwan.
Another DPP legislator, Chao Tien-lin, called for an “indefinite” boycott of Teslas until Musk retracted his comments – not just in Taiwan, but in allied democracies around the world.
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