But things in China can change fast — especially when the central government decides it's time to shake things up. And in the past few weeks, Beijing — through state-controlled media — has joined the chorus of Tesla critics, and it has the most important and loudest voice of all.
"Xinhua and People's Daily have been publishing opinion pieces regularly saying that Tesla ignores the rights of consumers," Anne Stevenson-Yang, the founder of the investment firm J Capital Research in China, said in an email to Insider. The violations are said to include a right to transparent pricing and to data about accidents.