exports of some crucial components for the u.s. industries so they could hinder the supply chain that could also block exports of some crucial raw materials even if that step doesn't seem to be too popular with the chinese government either and then finally china could also stop buying u.s. treasuries china is the biggest foreign debtor of the united states sold that could also be an option but all of these measures i just mentioned also could backfire to a certain degree to the chinese to the chinese economy so it's all yet to be seen thank you very much in new york for your analysis to corporate news now and a man in trouble or at least so it seems tesla confirmed on tuesday that it is being investigated by the u.s. justice department prosecutors opened a fraud investigation after c.e.o. elon musk tweeted last month that he wanted to take tesla private and had funding secured for the deal that caused the stock price to jump but musk then backed off