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双语外刊 | 特朗普胜选对押对宝的马斯克意味着什么？

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Elon Musk Wins Big With Trump Bet

Possible conflicts of interest emerge as the billionaire entrepreneur is expected to influence government spending and regulation

特朗普胜选对押对宝的马斯克意味着什么？

特朗普承诺让马斯克在拟成立的政府效率部中任职，负责审核联邦支出和监管。这位特斯拉掌门人可能获得巨大的经济回报，或构成前所未有的利益冲突。

Elon Musk spent more than $100 million to send Donald Trump back to the White House. Now that he has won, the billionaire industrialist and top executive of Tesla and SpaceX could reap enormous financial rewards—potentially presenting an unprecedented conflict of interest at the highest levels of government.

马斯克(Elon Musk)为了让特朗普(Donald Trump)重新入主白宫，花费了逾1亿美元。现在特朗普胜选，这位亿万富翁实业家、特斯拉(Tesla)和SpaceX的掌门人可能会获得巨大的经济回报，有可能在美国政府最高层构成前所未有的利益冲突。

Billions of dollars in revenue for Musk’s companies hang on government decisions: which rocket to use for a space launch, how many satellites to allow in low-Earth-orbit, whether to permit driverless cars on the highways.

马斯克麾下公司数以十亿美元计的收入取决于政府的决策：用哪种火箭进行太空发射，允许多少颗卫星进入近地轨道，以及是否允许无人驾驶汽车上路。

Musk, who has been promised a role auditing federal expenditures and regulations in a Trump administration through a proposed Department of Government Efficiency, will likely have a seat at the table where many of those decisions are made, giving him the opportunity to tailor policy to suit his own financial interests.

特朗普政府拟设立一个政府效率部，承诺让马斯克在该部门任职负责审核联邦支出和监管，马斯克很可能将在许多此类决策的讨论中占有一席之地，这将使他有机会根据自身经济利益来左右政策。

Musk oversees six companies—including electric-vehicle maker Tesla and rocket launcher SpaceX—with more than $1 trillion in assets held by investors.

马斯克掌管着六家公司，包括电动汽车制造商特斯拉和火箭发射公司SpaceX，投资者在这些公司持有的资产超过1万亿美元。

He and his companies have been repeatedly probed by government agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department, over concerns about user-data protection at X, formerly Twitter, the safety of his cars and his super political-action committee’s activities in the election.

他和他的公司曾多次受到政府机构的调查，包括联邦贸易委员会(Federal Trade Commission, 简称FTC)、美国证券交易委员会(Securities and Exchange Commission, 简称SEC)和司法部(Justice Department)，涉及X（前身为Twitter)的用户数据保护、特斯拉汽车的安全性，以及他的超级政治行动委员会在选举中的活动相关担忧。

Trump has said on the campaign trail that he will look out for Musk’s interests. “Elon is a great guy,” Trump said in late October. “He’s one of our geniuses and we have to protect our geniuses.”

特朗普在竞选活动中曾表示，他会照顾马斯克的利益。“埃隆是个很棒的人，”特朗普在10月下旬表示。“他是我们的天才之一，我们必须保护我们的天才。”

The two men have united in public over Trump’s culture-war takes on diversity, gender, and immigration, and Musk has become an ever-present mascot of sorts on the campaign trail since early October. He spent election night with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.

在特朗普关于多元化、性别和移民问题发表的文化战言论上，两人在公开场合上立场一致，自10月初以来，马斯克已成为特朗普竞选活动的常见“吉祥物”。选举之夜，他与特朗普一起在佛罗里达州棕榈滩的海湖庄园(Mar-a-Lago)度过。

Trump isn’t the only world leader that Musk has become chummy with, blurring business and geopolitics. He has had secret conversations with Vladimir Putin, contacts with China over its role in the electric-vehicle market, and flirted with meeting Narendra Modi over potential new business in India. He relies on foreign investors, with Saudis and Qataris among the largest X backers. These relationships could influence or complicate Trump’s foreign-policy plans.

特朗普并不是马斯克唯一与之交好的世界领导人，这种关系模糊了商业和地缘政治之间的界限。马斯克曾与弗拉基米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin)秘密交谈，与中国就其在电动汽车市场中的作用进行过接触，还曾考虑与莫迪(Narendra Modi)就印度潜在的新业务进行会面。他依赖外国投资者，X的最大投资者中包括沙特和卡塔尔。这些关系可能会影响特朗普的外交政策计划，也可能使其复杂化。

Some have expressed alarm that any role in the coming Trump administration will be an invitation to Musk to enrich himself and defang his regulators.

一些人已经发出警告，担心特朗普任命马斯克担任任何政府职务，都将成为马斯克为自己谋取私利和弱化对他的监管的机会。

“This is a blatant in-your-face effort by the world’s richest man to essentially buy influence by injecting himself in the election in unprecedented ways, potentially some of them illegal,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D., Va.), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“这位世界首富公然挑衅，以前所未有的、其中一些可能是非法的方式介入选举，实质上是为了购买影响力，”众议院外交事务委员会(House Foreign Affairs Committee)资深成员、弗吉尼亚州民主党众议员康纳利(Gerry Connolly)说。

Rep. Jake LaTurner (R., Kan.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, said safeguards can be put in place to handle the appearance of any conflicts. “His skill set is just too valuable for us to ignore,” he said of Musk’s plans to propose ways to slash the federal budget.

众议院监督委员会(House Oversight Committee)成员、堪萨斯州共和党众议员拉特纳(Jake LaTurner)表示，可以采取保障措施来应对任何看似存在的利益冲突。他在谈到马斯克提出削减联邦预算的计划时说：“他的能力太有价值了，我们不能忽视。”

Musk, his representatives and spokespeople for the companies, didn’t respond to requests for comment. Just days before the election, Musk wrote on X: “And to be clear, I have never asked @realDonaldTrump for any favors, nor has he offered me any.”

马斯克、他的代表以及这些公司的发言人没有回复记者的置评请求。就在选举日几天前，马斯克在X上写道：“我要澄清一点，我从未向@realDonaldTrump索要过任何好处，他也从未向我提供过任何好处。”

Mars, rockets and satellites

The billionaire has the most to gain through SpaceX, which has signed more than $15 billion in government contracts over the past decade.

火星、火箭和卫星

这位亿万富翁最有可能通过SpaceX获益，该公司在过去10年里获得了超过150亿美元的政府合同。

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration relies on SpaceX for some of its most high-profile missions. It is the only company currently transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The company is also the dominant rocket launcher for the Pentagon and has a growing business working on the intelligence community’s satellite programs.

美国国家航空航天局(National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 简称NASA)依赖SpaceX完成一些最引人注目的任务。该公司是目前唯一一家负责接送宇航员往返国际空间站的公司。该公司还是五角大楼的主要火箭发射商，在情报界卫星项目上的业务也在不断增长。

Musk is eager to boost the number and frequency of its launches—and consequent paydays—for its fleet of rockets, particularly its powerful Starship, in whose development the company invested billions of dollars. He has frequently complained on X about the limits placed on the company by the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees private space launches.

马斯克迫切希望增加其火箭发射次数和频率，从而增加收入，尤其是该公司投资数十亿美元开发的强大的星舰(Starship)火箭。他经常在X上抱怨美国航空管理局(Federal Aviation Administration, 简称FAA)对该公司施加的限制，FAA负责监管私人太空发射。

Musk’s greatest ambition is for human exploration of Mars, which he views as essential for the survival of humanity. He has made clear his intention to use his influence in government to make it happen. “The Department of Government Efficiency is the only path to extending life beyond Earth,” he wrote on X in October.

马斯克最大的雄心是人类探索火星，他认为这对人类的生存至关重要。他已经明确表示，他打算利用自己在政府中的影响力来实现这一目标。他10月份在X上写道：“‘政府效率部’是将生命扩展到地球以外的唯一途径。”

Starlink could also benefit from the government’s new $42 billion internet-expansion campaign. Both Trump and Brendan Carr, a conservative FCC commissioner, have said that Starlink could better connect some rural areas than fixed fiber-optic lines and have suggested last-minute rule changes to steer more subsidies to satellites.

星链(Starlink)也可以从政府新的420亿美元互联网扩张计划中获益。特朗普和联邦通信委员会(FCC)保守派委员卡尔(Brendan Carr)都曾表示，在连接一些农村地区方面，星链可能比固定的光纤线路做得更好，并建议在最后一刻修改规则，将更多补贴转向卫星。

Leaders at NASA have expressed concerns on occasion about Musk’s activities, including when he took a puff of marijuana on a podcast appearance several years ago. Following that situation, NASA ordered safety reviews at SpaceX and a competitor.

NASA的领导人有时会对马斯克的行为表示担忧，包括几年前他在播客上吸了一口大麻。在那之后，NASA下令对SpaceX及其竞争对手进行安全审查。

In a statement, a NASA spokesman said that its “contracts are with companies, and not with specific individuals” and that the agency works with contractors such as SpaceX on exploration and other efforts “for the benefit of all.”

NASA的一位发言人在一份声明中表示，其“合同是与公司签订的，而不是与特定的个人签订的”，该机构与SpaceX等承包商合作开展探索和其他工作，“是为了全体的利益”。

Tesla

Tesla has been a major beneficiary of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, which provides hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for investing in renewable-energy projects.

特斯拉

特斯拉一直是拜登(Biden)政府《通胀削减法案》(Inflation Reduction Act)的主要受益者，该法案为投资可再生能源项目提供了数以千亿美元计的补贴。

The roughly $800 billion public company has earned more than $2 billion so far in 2024 from clean-air credits that it sells to other automakers under Environmental Protection Agency rules.

这家市值约8,000亿美元的上市公司2024年迄今已通过出售碳积分赚取了超过20亿美元的收入，这些积分是根据美国国家环境保护局(Environmental Protection Agency)的规定出售给其他汽车制造商的。

In the past, Trump has spoken skeptically of electric vehicles and federal policies that promote their use—including a $7,500 electric-vehicle tax credit. More recently, he has sounded a more positive note. “I’m for electric cars,” Trump said in August. “I have to be because Elon endorsed me very strongly.”

过去，特朗普曾对电动汽车和促进电动汽车使用的联邦政策持怀疑态度，其中包括7,500美元的电动汽车税收抵免。最近，他的语气变得更加积极了。 “我支持电动汽车”，特朗普在8月份表示。 “我必须支持，因为马斯克非常支持我。”

Trump’s victory could also give Musk a role in shaping autonomous-vehicle regulations, a key to growing Tesla. Musk called for a federal approval process during an October earnings call. A long-running probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that Tesla’s driver-assisted Autopilot feature resulted in hundreds of “avoidable crashes,” and regulators are currently evaluating the safety of its “Full Self-Driving” feature.

特朗普的胜选也可能让马斯克有机会参与制定自动驾驶汽车法规，这对特斯拉的增长来说至关重要。马斯克在10月份财报电话会议上呼吁建立联邦审批程序。美国全国高速公路交通安全委员会(National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)的一项长期调查发现，特斯拉的辅助驾驶系统Autopilot导致了数百起“本可避免的撞车事故”，监管机构目前正在评估其“完全自动驾驶”(Full Self-Driving)功能的安全性。

X and Trump

Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion, he said, to protect it from the forces of censorship. But it also became a platform for him to boost pro-Trump messages and attack his detractors, including legislators.

X与特朗普

马斯克在2022年以440亿美元的价格收购了Twitter，他表示，这样做是为了保护该平台免受审查力量的侵害。但这个平台也成为了他宣传支持特朗普的信息和攻击批评者的工具，后者包括议员在内。

X has been the focus of a number of federal investigations from the SEC, led by Gary Gensler, and FTC Chair Lina Khan, both of whom Musk has criticized.

X一直是根斯勒(Gary Gensler)领导下的SEC和Lina Khan领导下的FTC的多项联邦调查的焦点，马斯克曾抨击过上述两人。

The FTC has investigated the platform’s privacy practices under Musk. In late October, Musk wrote of Khan: “She will be fired soon.”

FTC调查了马斯克接手后的这一平台的隐私保护措施。10月下旬，马斯克在谈到Khan时写道：“她很快就会被炒了。”

The SEC has been another sore spot for Musk. Last year, the agency sued Musk to enforce a subpoena related to his purchase of Twitter stock and his disclosures of his investment in the company. In response, he called for a “comprehensive overhaul” of the SEC. An SEC spokeswoman said the agency doesn’t comment on investigations.

SEC一直是马斯克的另一处痛点。去年，该机构起诉了马斯克，要求其执行一项与他购买Twitter股票以及披露对该公司投资有关信息的传票。作为回应，马斯克呼吁对SEC进行“全面改革”。SEC一位发言人表示，该机构不对调查置评。

Musk’s smaller companies may also have a lot at stake, including xAI, which could be affected by any federal rules on artificial intelligence, and Neuralink, whose brain implants are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

马斯克旗下规模较小的公司也可能面临很多风险，包括xAI和Neuralink。xAI可能会受到任何联邦人工智能(AI)法规影响，与此同时，Neuralink的脑机接口技术则受到美国食品药品管理局(FDA)的监管。

Musk announced in an election-night livestream on X that he plans to stay involved in politics after the 2024 elections. “America PAC is going to keep going after this election,” he said, and will “weigh in heavily” on the midterms and other elections.

The Department of Government Efficiency, if it comes to fruition, wouldn’t be the first time Musk and Trump joined forces. Musk served on two advisory councils during the early months of the previous Trump administration. He left both of them to protest Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords.

如果政府效率部最终成立，这将不是马斯克和特朗普的第一次联手了。在上届特朗普政府执政初期，马斯克曾在两个顾问委员会任职。为了抗议特朗普退出《巴黎协定》(Paris climate accords)的决定，他退出了这两个委员会。

The turbulence in their previous alliance is a reminder that the current bond could be short-lived. Both men thrive on being the center of attention. In 2022, as Trump was preparing to run for re-election, their animosity played out in public. “Too much drama,” Musk said of Trump on X. “Do we really want a bull in a china shop situation every single day!?” Trump around that time at a rally said of the world’s richest man: “So he’s another bulls— artist.”

两人之前的联动波折提醒人们，当前的这种联盟关系可能是短暂的。这两个人都热衷于成为关注的焦点。2022年，就在特朗普准备再次竞选总统之际，双方的敌意公开化了。“戏太多了”，马斯克在X上谈到特朗普时写道。“我们真的希望每天都看到一头公牛闯进瓷器店的场景吗？！”大约在同一时间，特朗普在一次集会上谈到这位世界首富时说：“所以，他是又一个满嘴跑火车的人。”

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