Tesla’s expansion in Xinjiang ‘sets a poor example’, say US lawmakers

Elon Musk last month announced opening of new showroom in region at heart of China's years-long campaign of repression against Uyghur people

The chairmen of two congressional panels on oversight and trade have assailed Tesla's expansion in China's far-western Xinjiang region, where mass internment camps have drawn heavy criticism, and asked the electric carmaker about its Chinese product sourcing.

Your misguided expansion into the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sets a poor example and further empowers the CCP [Chinese government] at a fraught moment," Democrats Bill Pascrell and Earl Blumenauer, who head two House of Representatives ways and means subcommittees, wrote in a joint letter to Tesla chief executive Elon Musk.