{"id":795634,"date":"2026-07-31T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:15:10","slug":"tesla-reportedly-might-sell-its-china-business-ahead-of-a-spacex-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795634\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla reportedly might sell its China business ahead of a SpaceX merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla is reportedly considering cleaving off its entire business in China to grease the wheels of a merger with SpaceX, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/autos\/tesla-weighs-sale-of-china-business-to-pave-way-for-potential-spacex-merger-5ae26026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according<\/a> to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newspaper reports that \u201csome Tesla executives have been told to prepare for a separation of the China business,\u201d which could include a \u201cspinoff, sale or closure,\u201d citing unnamed sources. The company reportedly would be able to do this fairly quickly because CEO Elon Musk had already tasked executives to prepare for a split in the event that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/10\/meet-the-chinese-typhoon-hackers-preparing-for-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing invades Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separating China from Tesla\u2019s global operations could make it easier to integrate the company into SpaceX, which is a defense contractor that has to follow strict rules around citizenship and national security. That would also be a major concession. China has grown to dominate Tesla\u2019s business, not only as a market for its vehicles, but as a production hub that serves Asia more broadly, and also Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla is reportedly considering cleaving off its entire business in China to grease the wheels of a merger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,11,1513,1019],"class_list":["post-795634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-elon-musk","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}