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:
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:
