Unfortunately many people in China see him as some kind of visionary genius (he’s an engineer!) who’s going to fix America with his genius optimization plan to weed out inefficiency in the government bureaucracy lol. I’ve even seen people wrote that maybe China should have its own DOGE lmao.

Also his Tesla factory in Shanghai actually pays twice as well in terms of salary and benefits (including medical insurance, pension plans and annual leave) compared to the other Chinese EV competitors, so it’s has quite a reputation there because many people hate the long working hours very commonly found in Chinese factory jobs. Foreign multinational corporations usually pay much better and less demand for overtime work. It’s all relative it seems.