This week, the world’s attention was on the chemistry between US president Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping at a high-stakes summit. But on Chinese social media, the bigger draw was an awkward encounter between two other men: Elon Musk and his rival, Lei Jun.
A brief, stilted interaction between Musk, who has long been a tech idol in China, and Lei, one of the country’s most prominent entrepreneurs, went viral as commentators spun a few seconds of footage into a personal drama between two business rivals.
Musk was in Beijing with a delegation of business leaders who had accompanied Trump...
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