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Elon Musk jokes he might be 'partly Chinese' in response to his viral Asian doppelgänger
Elon Musk has finally responded to the viral image showing his uncannily identical doppelganger.
Last week, the internet was left in disbelief over a photo circulating on social media that showed a Chinese man looking almost identical to the Tesla and SpaceX founder.
The clip was originally posted to Douyin - the Chinese app similar to TikTok - but has since made its way to other social media platforms.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk has a huge internet presence thanks to his active Twitter account. His face is very recognizable - so it makes sense that someone approached his doppelganger with a camera.
In the clip, Musk's lookalike is standing in what appears to be a multi-story car park talking to the man behind the camera. Not only is he a dead ringer for the billionaire with the same features and build - but he's even standing outside of a Tesla.
The video doesn't clarify whether the person recording genuinely thought he'd spotted Elon Musk or was just amazed at the uncanny resemblance. In the version of the clip reposted to TikTok, it has been captioned "Musk's twin brother is in China! Cool."
Now, Musk himself has reacted to the uncanny resemblance of the man in the video.
After posting his announcement on Twitter that he would be paying $11 billion in taxes this year, someone responded with a split image of himself and his "twin".
"Maybe I'm partly Chinese!" Musk wrote, seemingly noting the similarities.
Musk was born to a Canadian mother and a South African father and is a citizen of the US.
It comes as Musk said he will face the largest tax bill out of "any American in history".
Earlier this year, the Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder became the first person in the world to reach a net worth of more than $300 billion.
"For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year," he tweeted on Sunday, December 19.
Musk was recently labeled as "the world's richest freeloader" by US senator Elizabeth Warren after he was named Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year.
"Let's change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else," she tweeted.
In a public Twitter spat, Musk dubbed her "senator Karen" and told her to "stop projecting". On Monday he added fuel to the fire, revealing the eye-watering tax bill he expects for 2021.
"And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year," he tweeted in response.