On August 13, Former US President Donald Trump had a dialogue with Elon Musk, where we could clearly see that Musk was trying to nudge Trump on certain policy directions. This is an interesting initiative, especially when Donald Trump has a fair chance of returning to the White House next year.

You might want to listen to Musk explaining why he had endorsed Donald Trump in a recent episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast. However, this is not what we are discussing here today.

What has taken the Chinese cross border ecosystem by storm was the Chinese-branded equipment Trump used:

  1. Anker’s MagGo2.0 powerbank
  2. Boya’s Wireless Lavalier Microphone

We are not sure whether Former President Trump was aware of the brands and provenance of these products. Nonetheless, it is definitely a testament to the reach and competitiveness of Chinese consumer electronics products. (We covered some of these briefly in an earlier report on cross border ecommerce)

They have at least come a long way since this:

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Jianggan Li
Jianggan Li is the Founder & CEO of Momentum Works. Prior to founding Momentum Works, he co-founded Easy Taxi in Asia, and served as Managing Director of Foodpanda. The two years running Rocket Internet companies has given him a lifetime experience on supersonic implementation, and good camaraderie with entrepreneurs across the developing world. He holds a MBA from INSEAD (GMAT 770) and a degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. Unfortunately he never wrote a single line of code professionally - but in his first job he was in media, travelling extensively across Asia & Europe, speaking with Ministers & (occasionally) Prime Ministers. Apart from English and his native Mandarin, he is also fluent in French and conversational in Cantonese & Spanish. He tried to learn Latin (for three years) and Sanskrit (for six months) as well. In his (scarce) free time, he reads, travels, hikes and dives. Pyongyang, Tehran & Chisinau are among the interesting cities he has been to.