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Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

@committeeonccp

Jan 14

BREAKING: Documents And Recordings Reveal How TikTok Forced Staff To Swear Oaths To Uphold China’s ‘Socialist System’

"TikTok’s supposed independence is a fraud... ByteDance directly manages TikTok’s internal functions from China." - @RepMoolenaar dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/tik…

@RepMoolenaar "TikTok executives also sign agreements with ByteDance consenting to digital surveillance and report to China-based leadership... [a contract] apparently allowed the company to inspect TikTok executives’ personal electronic devices."

"Other documents also seem to indicate TikTok ultimately considered Puris to be a ByteDance employee.

While onboarding in 2019, Puris was allegedly required to sign one hiring document affirming: 'I am a director, executive officer or general partner of ByteDance LTD.'"

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Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

@committeeonccp

Nov 22, 2024

🚨This week, Select Committee members participated in an interactive simulation of a potential Taiwan conflict in the year 2026, run by @CSIS, focusing on state of the U.S. defense industrial base.

🧵Here's what they found... (1/x) ⬇️
selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-re…

U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE CHALLENGE #1: CONFLICT READINESS

- In the simulation, the U.S. and Taiwan ran low on critical munitions in a matter of days.
- The U.S. faced crippling losses, including 2 aircraft carriers, 15 large surface combatants, 3 attack submarines, and 2 amphibious ships.
- U.S. airpower also faced heavy losses, with between 250-455 4th and 5th generation fighter aircraft destroyed and up to 30 B-21 bombers lost. (2/x)

U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL CHALLENGE #2: SUPPLY CHAINS

Limited U.S. production of solid rocket motors, processor assemblies, castings, ball bearings, forgings, seekers for munitions, and microelectronics. (3/x)

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Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

@committeeonccp

Nov 13, 2024

🚨Incoming National Security Advisor @michaelgwaltz understands the existential threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

"The CCP has entered a Cold War with us, seeks to supplant us, and seeks to defeat us."

🧵(1/10) - Rep. Waltz outlines the threat & how to combat it. ⬇️

TAIWAN: "We need to make it very clear to China that invading Taiwan - which will then allow China to control about 50% of global trade and GDP - isn't acceptable...

We can't wait until Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is leveled... to then have a tough response." (2/10)

SUPPLY CHAINS: "[China is] creating global dependence - whether it is on lithium, pharmaceuticals, even rail cars...

There is a very serious potential conflict coming, and a key part of the Chinese strategy is to use our supply chains against us." (3/10)

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Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

@committeeonccp

Nov 9, 2024

🚨FINDINGS: U.S. Investment Fuels China’s Military Advances and Human Rights Abuses

Official Select Committee findings reveal American $ fuels blacklisted Chinese military companies & the Chinese Communist Party's vital industries.

5 most SHOCKING facts below 🧵⬇️

Fact #1: Both Private & Public US Investments Have Fueled China’s Rise

Select Committee investigation found that 5 US venture capital funds invested over $3 billion in Chinese semiconductor & AI companies tied to the PRC's military & human rights abuses.
selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-re…

Fact #2: Early U.S. Investments Helped Build Companies Later Blacklisted by U.S. Government

91% of the $40 Billion+ Chinese AI investments occurred at early venture capital stages, providing not just capital but also mentorship, networking, and name recognition.

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Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

@committeeonccp

Oct 16, 2024

https://twitter.com/CleoPaskal/status/1845249376051974653

"Want to know what it’s like to live in a country in the process of becoming a Chinese Communist Party vassal state?"

In her new piece, @CleoPaskal tells the story of two Solomon Islands lawmakers who were denied healthcare & arrested, just for standing up to the CCP.

🧵(1/x)

https://twitter.com/CleoPaskal/status/1845249376051974653

In 2019, Malaita Province officials, Celsus Talifilu and Daniel Suidani, issued a moratorium on business licences for investors connected to the CCP.

This was in response to rising CCP influence & political warfare within the Solomon Islands' national government.

(2/x)

Following the moratorium, Suidani fell ill, but the national government would only provide the treatment he desperately needed if he decided to "drop his opposition to the CCP."

Suidani refused, but eventually "received the medical care he needed in Taipei."

(3/x)

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Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

@committeeonccp

Sep 25, 2024

WATCH: Chairman @RepMoolenaar speech at @AEI on the CCP's "LOADED GUN" pointed at America — Chinese companies that pose unacceptable supply chain or technology risk to the United States.🧵⬇️

"Looking for a 'smoking gun' though is the wrong way to think about China-related risk.

After all, a smoking gun means a shot has already been fired.

Demanding to see smoking guns before taking action puts policymakers into a reactive posture. When our country’s leaders have failed to connect the dots and take action, there have been catastrophic consequences including Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

This is strategically unwise and financially ruinous. Consequently, I would like to spend some time outlining why we need to be looking not for 'smoking guns' but instead 'loaded guns'– Chinese companies that because of the technology they provide or the supply chains they impact, pose an unacceptable risk to our country’s security." (1/x)

"Going forward, we need to be asking whether a given company, through its technology or supply chain reach, could provide the CCP with the ability to threaten our national or economic security interests.

If the answer is yes, we need to act with the presumption that the company in question will one day be used by the CCP to threaten our national security, and then we need to take appropriate steps to proactively stop the threat.

The Chinese government, through its actions, has foreclosed the opportunity for Chinese companies to receive the benefit of a doubt. So how do we get ahead of the problem? I would suggest at least three key steps:" (2/x)

"First, for the sake of our national security, we need to implement appropriate barriers to our market, particularly in strategic sectors, to prevent malign PRC companies from undermining U.S. technology and undercutting American businesses.

We must also leverage and build upon crucial existing authorities to ensure PRC tech products, from LiDAR to genetic sequencers, do not gain access to our sensitive data or critical infrastructure.

This includes expanding CFIUS jurisdiction to include foreign companies entering critical U.S. industries. Following the same logic it currently uses to assess national security risk when it comes to transactions, CFIUS should be assessing whether allowing a Chinese entity to enter a sensitive sector of the U.S. economy could pose a risk to our national security." (3/x)

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