MEDIA ADVISORY

For Immediate Release
March 13, 2024

CONTACT:
Matthew Franklin, [email protected]

TikTok: Xi’s Not-so-Secret Weapon:
How Do We Disarm It?

House Vote Today is a Critical Battle in
the CCP’s “Unrestricted Warfare” Against Us

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The outcome of a House floor vote today to disarm the CCP of its lethal weapon doing business as TikTok may determine the future course of what is now properly called “World War Xi.”

As our Committee on the Present Danger: China has documented over the past five years, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is not only engaged in “strategic arson” across the globe, setting fires with his proxies in Ukraine, Israel, the Red Sea and threatening to do so in Taiwan. His Party has also long been engaged in “unrestricted” pre-kinetic warfare against America.

The CCP’s weaponization of TikTok in such warfare is on full display today as our Representatives vote on vitally needed, bipartisan legislation that would shut the platform down unless new American owners terminate its toxic algorithm, Big Data collection and influence operations.

Congress must heed not the CCP’s “addicts” and lobbyists but the patriots who understand that a defeat in this fight may lead to decisive ones in the violent battles Xi has in store for us next.

The next Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) webinar, “TikTok: Xi’s Not-so-Secret Weapon: How Do We Disarm It?” today from 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET, will examine the various ways in which TikTok poses a threat to the United States and her people; how the platform has been weaponized to date, including for the purpose of defeating the bipartisan legislation requiring its divestment from the CCP; how it will be used in the future against America if not divested; and the importance of taking action to defuse this ticking time-bomb now.

Register at PresentDangerChina.org.

WHAT: A CPDC webinar | “TikTok: Xi’s Not-so-Secret Weapon: How Do We Disarm It?”

WHEN: 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. ET, Wednesday, March 13, 2024

WHO:

Moderator: Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Panelists:

Brian Costello, Longtime tech investor and artificial intelligence entrepreneur  – Topic: “How TikTok is Weaponized Against Us”
Captain James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; co-author, “Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure” – Topic: “The CCP’s Unrestricted Warfare on the United States and How TikTok Fits Into Its Lethal Attacks”
Gordon Chang, Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute; columnist, Newsweek; author, “China is Going to War,” and “The Coming Collapse of China” – Topic: “The Effects of TikTok’s Warfare Against America and Why Corrective Action is Required”
Connie Elliott, Subject Matter Expert on totalitarians and how they secure and maintain power – Topic: “Defusing the Ticking TikTok Time-Bomb”

 HOW: Register at PresentDangerChina.org

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CONTACT:

To interview representatives of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, Matthew Franklin, [email protected].

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