The saying is akin to the idiom \u201cto bite the hand that feeds you,\u201d Yoon reported. Tesla has an expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer\u2019s second largest market.<\/p>\n
The governing Chinese Communist Party has been highly sensitive to the matter, especially as it courts outside investment after months of zero-Covid lockdowns prompted nationwide protests, Yoon reported.<\/p>\n
A Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he shared reporting on the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s \u201clow confidence\u201d assessment that the global Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.<\/p>\n
CNBC\u2019s Eunice Yoon reported Tuesday morning on the warning from the social media pages of the Global Times, the English-language subsidiary of the government-controlled People\u2019s Daily.<\/p>\n
The Global Times warned Musk<\/a> that he could be \u201cbreaking the pot of China\u201d after the Tesla and Twitter CEO responded to tweets that asserted that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan research laboratory.<\/p>\n The Department of Energy concluded with \u201clow confidence\u201d that the Covid<\/a> pandemic began in a Wuhan laboratory, but sources familiar with the matter stressed to NBC News that the conclusion was not viewed as hugely significant. The FBI reached a similar conclusion at a \u201cmoderate confidence\u201d level in 2021.<\/p>\n Elon Musk has not yet replied to this. However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab incident in Wuhan<\/a>, China.\u00a0 This development comes after new intelligence had prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the novel coronavirus pandemic, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). So, is this an American conspiracy or a Chinese conspiracy, the people ask?<\/p>\n