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Yes, Musk understood (perhaps too late) that he has Teslas to make and sell, and China is the second largest market for them, and CCP would be aware if he owns Twitter. Now he is between rock and hard place because his financial interests don't play well with his public image as "pro free speech". So maybe killing Twitter is even not too bad a deal.

Plus his idea of X as "everything app" means Twitter will not exist as such anyway, ie. at best it'll be killed by quickly transforming into something else. The rumors that it will require ID verification seems to support it. Instead of a single common space it will be balkanized between nations so that he can satisfy everyone by showing different content (ie. if you verify as Chinese you will see only pro-CCP propaganda, same with Arab countries etc).