Op-ed highlights business interests of tech billionaire who spent $250m to elect Trump<\/p>\n
Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s mounting influence in Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s inner circle has triggered alarm from a former US military chief, who warns the tech billionaire and Trump confidant\u2019s deep ties to Beijing could compromise national security.<\/p>\n Lt Gen Russel Honor\u00e9 condemned Musk\u2019s web of Chinese business interests \u2013 including $1.4bn in state bank loans<\/a> and a Tesla factory subject to Beijing\u2019s stringent information-sharing laws \u2013 in a New York Times op-ed<\/a> as he questioned the SpaceX chief\u2019s fitness to shape White House policy.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Op-ed highlights business interests of tech billionaire who spent $250m to elect Trump Elon Musk\u2019s mounting influence in Donald Trump\u2019s inner circle has triggered alarm from a former US military chief, who warns the tech billionaire and Trump confidant\u2019s deep ties to Beijing could compromise national security. Lt Gen Russel Honor\u00e9 condemned Musk\u2019s web of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}