Renowned China expert Gordon Chang has released multiple warnings about TikTok, the social media app that closely is tied to the Chinese Community Party, and in fact likely sends the details it gets from monitoring Americans there.
WND recently reported that he was telling Joe Biden that he needs to end discussions over the company’s data security and shut it down.
Or else require that it be sold to American interests.
TikTok, a video-sharing app, has been controversial for some time because of the fact it’s China owned and the data it collects from millions of Americans finds its way to the Chinese Communist Party for analysis. President Donald Trump tried to end its use in America, but Joe Biden restored it.
Chang wrote at Gatestone Institute, “The Biden administration should terminate the seemingly endless discussions and either require TikTok to stop operations in the U.S. or force its Chinese owner to sell the app lock, stock and barrel to American parties. No other solution is acceptable from national security and First Amendment points of view.”
Now a report from the Washington Examiner has detailed how lobbyists for TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have “enjoyed a cozy relationship with President Joe Biden’s White House.”
The Examiner explained, “Congress is mulling legislation that would ban TikTok in the U.S., and Biden authorized an app ban in December for roughly 4 million government devices as more than one dozen state governments enact device prohibitions.”
But, the report pointed out, “TikTok and ByteDance lobbyists have visited the White House at least eight times between July 2021 and August 2022.
WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews
The details come from White House visitor logs.
“While it is unclear whether the lobbyists went to the White House on TikTok business or for another client, the visits are ‘unequivocally’ worrisome, according to Kara Frederick, who helped create and lead Facebook’s Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program between 2016 and 2017,” the Examiner reported.
Frederick, now with the Heritage Foundation, said groups like TikTok “are doing the dirty work of the Chinese party state.”
The software long has caused concern because ByteDance has admitted to spying on Americans.
Workers formerly with the company have confirmed it shares information to the CCP.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said there’s support for doing something regarding TikTok, and suggested congressional hearings would be a good start.
He’s already on record supporting a previously recommended ban on TikTok on government devices.
In the report, Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, explained, “I assumed President Biden rescinded Trump’s ban on TikTok because Hunter was getting kickbacks from China, but now we know TikTok’s lobbyists have also had unfettered access to the White House. President Biden must stop cozying up to Chinese companies and start putting our national security and American citizens first.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The “Climate Change Cult.” The “Anti-Racism Cult.” The “Cult of Wokeness.” The “LGBTQ Cult” and its predatory offspring targeting America’s children, the “Transgender Cult.” The “Cult of Abortion.” The “COVID Cult.” The “Cult of Globalism.” “TikTok Cults.” Every month the list grows.
To right-thinking Americans attempting to make sense of a nation seemingly gone mad, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the irrational, deranged – and often demonic – leftwing political and cultural movements currently capturing the minds of millions of Americans are nothing short of full-fledged cults.
Although the high priesthood of all these leftwing religious cults – i.e., university professors, academics and other Marxist ideologues and activists – may be true believers, the people actually wielding REAL POWER do not believe any of it. To them, these leftwing cults conveniently serve to disguise and distract “the rabble” from what the leader class is REALLY up to, which is the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and glory for themselves, and a total transformation of America and the world.
All of this and much more is explored in a powerful, insightful and absolutely unique way in the latest issue of WND’s acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled “HOLY WAR: Defeating the growing cult of leftism and its total war on Christianity.”
For 25 years, WND has boldly brought you the news that really matters. If you appreciate our Christian journalists and their uniquely truthful reporting and analysis, please help us by becoming a WND Insider!
Content created by the WND News Center is available for re-publication without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].
SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!
This article was originally published by the WND News Center.
