In January, with a nationwide ban on the upcoming thicket, hundreds of thousands of people in the US began to gather on another Chinese social application called Rednote – only to discover that Maye Musk, mother of Elon Musk, has already established a relatively enormous audience on the platform. Maye, who has become a celebrity in China in the last few years, had over 600,000 followers at Rednote, when the American flood arrived.
“I have to find a block button”, commented one American user at Maye’s The latest video at that timewhich received over 10,000 likes. “I can’t believe that I am a witness to American people who confront Musk’s mother on her face,” we read another comment in Chinese. Shortly afterwards, Maye’s comments on Rednote were closed for several weeks. Novel comments began to appear again only at the beginning of February.
This incident represented a infrequent moment when Maye Musk created parallel public paintings for herself. In China, the 76-year-old built a largely apolitical reputation as “Silver influential“Fashion model for local brands and author of the book, which regularly collects Positive cover Novel York Times previously informed in the state -owned Chinese state media. Last week she took another trip to China, This time To the city of Wuxi, where she was invited to see the drone show, promoted classic craftsmanship and posed with the aid of a special Tesla model that appears different colors sold only in Asia.
But in the United States, Maye’s career coincided with Elon, because her son gained unprecedented power and influence on the US Federal Government. From the time when President Trump won the re-election, Maye traveled to Air Force One, sat next to Melania Trump at a party with MAR-A-Lago and participated in dinner with Ivanka Trump, while regularly shooting at X about US policy, in accordance with the wired review of her presence in social media.
In many respects, Maye seems to try to survive a tiny border between her political commitment in the US and business contacts in China and other foreign countries. This undertaking has become more burdened over the past two months, when Trump has radically transformed the US foreign policy, including imposing up-to-date tariffs into China. “Currently, there is an increased risk for American businessmen traveling to China, which is still growing, especially as tension increases in the trade war,” says Holden Triplett, co -founder of Trenchcoat Advisors and a former FBI senior official published in Beijing.
The Maye Musk business manager and the artistic artist agency, her representatives of talents in China, did not answer the requests for comment from Wired.
Even before she started traveling to China regularly, Maye publicly supported Elon and Tesla’s business projects in this country. In 2015, she sent a parcel from Elon, in which he mentioned a meeting with the Chinese leader XI Jinping. “A great trip to China, seeing President XI … Pic in China Team in State Garden,” reads a tweet, which was later removed from the Elon profile.