Tesla is looking at cutting loose its China business to clear a path toward a merger with SpaceX, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. Now, days later, we get a report that his team is already working out how to peel off Tesla’s China operation. We’ve argued before that Tesla’s China business was one of the real structural obstacles to a SpaceX merger. A forced separation of the China business is one way to make the national-security problem disappear before anyone in Washington has to rule on it. Selling the China business would take it from a reframing to a fact.