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Tesla Just Opened a New Showroom in China’s Xinjiang Region, Just Days After the U.S. Banned Imports from Xinjiang

January 4, 2022

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On Dec. 31, electric vehicle maker Tesla posted a message on Weibo, a Twitter-like website in China: “On the last day of 2021, we meet in Xinjiang. In 2022, let us together launch Xinjiang on its electric journey!”

This was no ordinary corporate post. Tesla’s announcement was stunning, as the company proclaimed that it is opening a brand-new showroom in Xinjiang, the same place a genocide is being undertaken by China’s government, according to everyone from the U.S. State Department to a special tribunal in the United Kingdom to Canada’s Parliament to numerous human rights organizations.

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