{"id":59130,"date":"2020-08-26T22:41:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/report-spacexs-nasa-contracts-threatened-over-tesla-china-ties-2\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T22:41:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:41:04","slug":"report-spacexs-nasa-contracts-threatened-over-tesla-china-ties-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/report-spacexs-nasa-contracts-threatened-over-tesla-china-ties-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: SpaceX\u2019s NASA Contracts Threatened Over Tesla China Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Congressional negotiators are considering whether <strong>NASA<\/strong> contracts awarded to Elon Musk\u2019s<strong> SpaceX<\/strong>&nbsp;represent a potential national security risk due to Chinese financial support for the billionaire owner\u2019s electric car company, <strong>Tesla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is there to stop them from going to Musk directly and saying, \u2018We\u2019ll call your line of credit early, unless you give us X, Y, or Z?\u2019\u201d said a congressional Republican aide involved in negotiations over the comprehensive legislation governing the space agency. \u201cAnd, there\u2019s no real clarity that there\u2019s any kind of mechanism that would stop that other than good behavior by an individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question underscores the suspicion coursing through Washington and Beijing, with national security officials prosecuting an intensifying geopolitical rivalry by economic means. China\u2019s penchant for intellectual property theft has created uncertainty even around federal government contracts awarded to American captains of industry such as Musk, a pioneer of private sector spaceflight and electric cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Read more from The Washington Examiner &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional negotiators are considering whether NASA contracts awarded to Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX&nbsp;represent a potential national security risk due to Chinese financial support for the billionaire owner\u2019s electric car company, Tesla. \u201cWhat is there to stop them from going to Musk directly and saying, \u2018We\u2019ll call your line of credit early, unless you give us X, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}