Tesla's expansion in Xinjiang 'sets a poor example', say US lawmakers – NewsBreak

The chairmen of two congressional panels on oversight and trade have assailed Tesla's expansion in China's far-western Xinjiang region, where mass internment camps have drawn heavy criticism, and asked the electric carmaker about its Chinese product sourcing. "Your misguided expansion into the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sets a poor example and further empowers the CCP [Chinese government] at a fraught moment," Democrats Bill Pascrell and Earl Blumenauer, who head two House of Representatives ways and means subcommittees, wrote in a joint letter to Tesla chief executive Elon Musk. Tesla made a New Year's Eve announcement that it opened a showroom…