Musk stated at the “All In” Summit on Wednesday, “China has, really for like half a century or so or maybe longer at this point, their policy has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From this standpoint, it maybe is analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China – mostly because the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of unification effort by force.”

Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu started by referring to the fact that X, formerly called Twitter, is blocked in China, as well as reports that Musk refused to let Ukraine use SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network to aid a prospective attack on Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

“Hope @ElonMusk can also ask the CCP to open @X to its people. Perhaps he thinks banning it is a good policy, like turning off @Starlink to thwart Ukraine’s counterstrike against Russia,” Wu tweeted, continuing, “Listen up, Taiwan is not part of the [People’s Republic of China] & certainly not for sale!”