Biden says Elon Musk’s relationships with foreign countries are ‘worthy of being looked at’

Biden says Elon Musk’s relationships with foreign countries are ‘worthy of being looked at’

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday evening that Elon Musk's relationships with foreign countries are "worthy of being looked at" in light of the billionaire's purchase of Twitter. The president had been asked if he felt Musk and his Twitter acquisition posed a "threat to US national security," given Musk's business relationships with foreign governments such as Saudi Arabia's. Biden chuckled and paused in thought before answering. "I think that Elon Musk's cooperation and, or, technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at," he told reporters at a "Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I'm not suggesting that. I'm suggesting that it's worth being looked at, and that's all I'll say," he added. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a longtime investor in Twitter, became the social media platform's second-largest shareholder after helping to finance Musk's $44 billion acquisition. Alwaleed's holding company now owns Twitter shares worth $1.89 billion, The subsidiary of a Qatari sovereign wealth fund also contributed $375 million to the deal, among other investors such as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and crypto exchange Binance. China is a key production base for Musk's automaker Tesla, which set up a "gigafactory" in Shanghai in 2018.