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."

🚨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) ⬇️
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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)

🚨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)

🚨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.
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"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.

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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)

🚨BREAKING: Select Committee Republicans call on @USTreasury to investigate 6 Chinese companies supporting Iran's military & terrorist proxies.

Chinese companies, funded by U.S. $, are tied to Iran’s military/energy with at least $6 BILLION.

🧵(1/x)⬇️
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@USNavy seized 9,000 “Chinese-made Type 56 rifles” smuggled to the Houthis in an operation led by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Subsidiaries of China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (Norinco) make one of the most popular Chinese model of such rifles.

Separating TikTok from Chinese Communist Party control does NOT violate the first amendment.

Foreign governments don’t have a right to take over American media.

But don’t just take our word for it. —  first amendment AUTHOR, James Madison, thought so too. (🧵THREAD) 👇

https://twitter.com/tiktokpolicy/status/1769836841451024741

In 1799, Madison CALLED OUT Congress over a newspaper in the U.S. under control of the British crown. ⬇️

“the establishment, under the eyes of our government, of a foreign newspaper… avowing his allegiance to the King — why has so little been heard?”founders.archives.gov/?q=%20Author%3…

Fact check, @TikTokPolicy — ByteDance and TikTok have REPEATEDLY coordinated with the Chinese government in Beijing.

In fact, key leaders at your parent company have senior positions within the Chinese Communist Party. ⬇️

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg… (🧵THREAD)

https://twitter.com/tiktokpolicy/status/1769792960982339761

OUR REPORT: “Secretary of ByteDance’s CCP committee, Zhang Fuping, also serves as ByteDance’s Editor-in-Chief….

Bytedance has vowed that the CCP committee would “take the lead” across “all product lines and business lines,” which include TikTok.” selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-re…

🧵THREAD: TikTok’s pattern of malign influence operations against the United States.

With our bill, @RepGallagher & @CongressmanRaja introduced a resolution outlining the evidence of TikTok’s threat to our national security.

See the YEARS of details for yourself… 👇





“On June 17, 2022, public reporting revealed that, according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, China-based employees of ByteDance repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about U.S. TikTok users, including the physical locations of specific U.S. citizens.”

.@BlackRock and @MSCI_Inc financial products funnel U.S. $ into companies fueling the Chinese military’s…

- Nuclear tech
- Warships
- Fighter Jets
- Radar
- Ammunition
- Satellites
- Semiconductors

Scroll for a list of examples from our initial investigation. ⬇️

In 2019 @CommerceGov accused a Chinese company, CGN Power Co. Ltd. of attempting to acquire advanced proprietary U.S. nuclear technology for military uses in China.

Now, @MSCI_Inc and @BlackRock financial products funnel U.S. $ into CGN.

FLASHBACK: In January 2020, the @FBI arrested Charles Lieber, the former chair of @Harvard’s chemistry department.

While receiving grants from the @DeptofDefense, Lieber took millions from the CCP to operate a lab in Wuhan. “Lieber repeatedly lied to not only special agents but @Harvard and the @NIH…

[He] also failed to disclose that he received millions from the Chinese communist government…

Lieber even went as far as signing a 5-year agreement [for] a joint research lab between Wuhan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…