Elon Musk has showed off a Tesla to China’s premier inside Beijing’s walled leadership compound and dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. If there is anyone with the connections to work things out between the world’s two feuding superpowers,

China's biggest risk during Donald Trump's second term as president would be US government overhauls driven by tech billionaire Elon Musk, a leading Chinese political scientist and policy adviser to Beijing has warned.

No American business leader has more visibly and lavishly supported President-elect Donald Trump than Elon Musk – and few if any have a more complex relationship with China, a country that Trump has vowed to confront with higher tariffs and other measures.