US President Joe Biden stated on Wednesday he thinks Twitter boss Elon Musk’s relationships with different international locations are worthy of being checked out.

Biden was requested at a information convention whether or not he thought Musk was a risk to nationwide safety and if his acquisition of Twitter with assist from a Saudi Arabian conglomerate needs to be investigated by the US authorities.

“I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at,” Biden stated.

“Whether he is doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that. I’m suggesting they’re worth being looked at.”

The White House stated final month that experiences the United States was discussing launching a nationwide safety evaluation of a few of Musk’s ventures together with Twitter had been “not true.”

Musk’s buy of Twitter sparked issues that he may face stress from international locations making an attempt to regulate on-line speech.

The world’s richest man, Musk is the CEO of electrical carmaker Tesla which counts China as a key market and manufacturing base. Tesla operates a manufacturing unit in Shanghai, China, which accounted for about half of Tesla’s international deliveries final yr.

Musk can also be CEO of rocket and satellite tv for pc web firm SpaceX, amongst others.

Musk beforehand prompt that tensions between China and Taiwan might be resolved by handing over some management of Taiwan to Beijing. Musk additionally stated China has sought assurances that he wouldn’t provide SpaceX’s Starlink web service there.

He additionally proposed Ukraine completely cede Crimea to Russia, whereas saying SpaceX couldn’t indefinitely fund Starlink in Ukraine.

Ian Bremmer, head of political-risk consultancy Eurasia Group, tweeted that Musk instructed him that he had spoken with Putin and the Kremlin straight about Ukraine. Musk denied his claims.

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