Tesla has opened a new showroom in Xinjiang, the remote region where Chinese authorities are carrying out a campaign of forcible assimilation against religious minorities that has become a public-relations quagmire for Western brands, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The electric carmaker, based in Austin, Texas, has started operations at the new showroom in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, the company said in a December 31 post on its official Weibo account, China’s Twitter-like social media platform.
Read the full report: The Wall Street Journal.
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