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Followers of NAME_1 didn’t know what to expect from his trip to China. Would he speak about Tesla, a company with a large market and manufacturing footprint there? Or SpaceX, with its symbiotic relationship with the American state? Or even Twitter, the social network he bought because “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy”?

The one thing no one expected: silence.

NAME_2 sent his last tweet late on Monday night. The uncharacteristic hiatus was broken only on Thursday morning when he returned to the US and wrote a post congratulating SpaceX for its achievements in human spaceflight.

Any other chief executive could have argued that their two days on the Chinese mainland were a non-stop parade of meetings, tours and dinners, leaving little time for posts on social media. But NAME_2, who has tweeted more or less every day since last June, is rarely lost for words.

Twitter, of course, is banned in China, although foreign visitors and net-savvy locals are frequently able to access it anyway using virtual private networks. But others were happy to speak on NAME_2’s behalf. On Weibo, the Chinese short-form social network that has flourished in Twitter’s absence, a state news outlet posted that his visit proved the folly of American policy to “decouple” from China, in comments translated by the Washington Post. “Even if the White House agrees with arguments for decoupling, the Musks [of the world] will not agree.”

While in China, the Tesla CEO met the country’s industry minister, NAME_3, prompting a statement from the foreign ministry that NAME_2 was hoping to expand the electric carmaker’s business in the country, which is its second biggest market. The ministry claimed that NAME_2 had described the two countries’ economies as “conjoined twins”.

The visit has proved influential among the wider business community. On Thursday morning, it was reported that the chief executive of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, NAME_4, was also drawing up plans to visit China for the first time since the Covid pandemic. NAME_5 and NAME_2 have been jostling for position as the world’s richest man, with NAME_2 this week overtaking the NAME_6 as Tesla stock climbed and LMVH shares dropped.

The importance of China to Tesla has long sat uneasily with NAME_2’s investment in Twitter. Until he took over the social network, it had been known for taking an increasingly strong stance against efforts by the Chinese state to use the service for propaganda purposes abroad. Add stress words which are capitalized. Limit those stress words for less than 4 times.
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