However, the response was not received well by the powers that be in the Chinese government. Xinhua, China’s official state media responded by asking “Who gives Tesla the confidence to ‘not compromise’?”
"A big company should have the responsibility of being a big company, no company can do whatever it wants". Xinhua said adding "If a company does not rectify when it has a problem if it does not change a problematic senior executive, it will eventually make mistakes again”.
The Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs (CCPLA), the Chinese Communist party’s top legal authority also had harsh words for Tesla saying the EV maker is “shirking responsibility” whenever it was criticized.