The warning came after Musk replied to a Twitter post about the Department of Energy’s conclusion that the virus likely emerged from a lab accident in China. Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times published an editorial threatening Musk, who in his tweet questioned whether Anthony Fauci funded the development of the coronavirus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying, “Elon Musk, are you breaking the pot of China?”
“Breaking the pot” means roughly the same as “biting the hand that feeds you,” CNBC reported. China is the second-largest market for Musk’s electric car company Tesla, which also runs a massive production factory in Shanghai.
[China is breaking its own pots. Musk should be looking to relocate his supply chains, and soon. — Ed]
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