Musk makes billions from China. How will that work now?

Elon Musk has a relatively long and very profitable history doing business with China. And he’s likely to want to keep it that way.

Elon Musk is a poster-child for US businesses cracking China, Donald Trump’s new foreign policy advisers have a very different view. David Rowe

Jessica SierNorth Asia correspondent

Nov 15, 2024 – 11.35am

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Of all the top appointments to his team made by Donald Trump, billionaire industrialist Elon Musk might be the most pro-China.

But just how much influence Musk has on the president-elect approach to America’s main rival is one of the key questions for those mapping out the future of global trade, security and geopolitics.

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Jessica SierNorth Asia correspondentJessica Sier is the North Asia Correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. She is based in Tokyo, Japan. Jessica has previously written on technology, global capital markets and economics.