The car makers protected by the dealership sales model have a more manageable situation here, as lots of shady tactics can be applied without customers noticing.Tesla Global Vice President Grace Tao issued a statement regarding protests, saying, “the price cuts in China reflected engineering innovation and answered Beijing’s call to encourage economic development and consumption.”Why it mattersAs with previous incidents, the protests will go away sooner or later, and things will settle.It has been almost two years since Tesla faced intense pressure in Chinese media regarding alleged ‘brake failure.’ Despite no evidence, many Chinese media referred to it as brake failure incidents, even after investigation proved the crashes were caused by drivers or made up at all.And when they did pay attention, they referred to the crashes more unbiasedly, didn’t rush with a quick conclusion, and instead used words such as ‘waiting for investigation results’, etc.So at the end of the day, it is not about the incident that matters, but about how it is covered – which hints to us how strong Tesla’s current position in Beijing is."