Elon Musk and his famed electric vehicle company ‘Tesla’ are now under fire after news broke that the company had opened a showroom in Urumqi, China.
Elon Musk and his famed electric vehicle company ‘Tesla’ are now under fire after news broke that the company had opened a showroom in Urumqi, China.
The Details: The province which has been the epicenter of violence and repression against China’s Uyghurs minority group, repression which many have likened to genocide.
Activists have claimed that Tesla’s decision to open a showroom in the province legitimates China’s brutal crackdown and they are now calling on the company to immediately close the facility.
The US has banned many exports from the region over fears they have been made using slave labor.
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