Donald Trump’s ignorance about the Chinese auto market is hurting US companies ‘and Elon Musk isn’t helping (TSLA, F)

Trump’s budding trade war with China will undermine the connection between the two country’s intertwined auto industries.By the numbers, an imbalance on imports duties is meaningless because so few China-made vehicles come to the US.Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t helping.Ever since the 2016 campaign, then-candidate and now President Donald Trump’s sweeping inability to grasp the basics of the global auto industry has continually astonished.Some of this was demagoguery: appeal to b