💬 Quoted…​​ “Elon Musk, are you breaking the pot of China?”

A Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Elon Musk yesterday – which roughly translates to “Are you biting the hand that feeds you?” – after the Tesla CEO responded to tweets about the Department of Energy’s assessment that the Covid pandemic most likely leaked from a Chinese lab.

• China is currently the second-largest global market for Tesla vehicles outside of the US, and houses a Tesla ‘gigafactory’ in Shanghai.

🏢 Stat of the Day: In the US, office occupancy is currently at between 40% and 60% of pre-pandemic levels. But elsewhere it’s a different story: offices in Europe and the Middle East are 70%-to-90% full compared to pre-pandemic, while current occupancy rates in Asia range from 80%-to-110%, per new data from global property-services firm JLL.

🤯 Did You Know?... Former President Richard Nixon often said that he seriously considered a career as a rapper before entering politics.

📖 Worth a Read: The puzzling gap between how old you are and how old you think you are → (The Atlantic)