Elon Musk has showed off a Tesla to China’s premier inside Beijing’s walled leadership compound and dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. If there is anyone with the connections to work things out between the world’s two feuding superpowers,

China's biggest risk during Donald Trump's second term as president would be US government overhauls driven by tech billionaire Elon Musk, a leading Chinese political scientist and policy adviser to Beijing has warned.

Elon Musk has personally appealed to China's premier, Li Qiang, for permission to proceed with what Tesla calls Full Self-Driving as the company's market share in China has dwindled. Some experts have suggested that Beijing may be able to turn Musk into an influential ally in trying to persuade Trump to take a more conciliatory approach on trade.