China Uses TikTok to Expand Its Influence Globally, US Lawmaker Says
- House Foreign Affairs to vote on possible TikTok ban Tuesday
- Gallagher’s new China committee holds first hearing Tuesday
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China is using TikTok to expand its influence around the world, a top Republican lawmaker said Monday in arguing that the popular video-sharing app that’s owned by a Beijing-based company should be banned in the US or sold off.
Representative Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, chairman of a new House committee scrutinizing China, argued for the urgency of decoupling the world’s two largest economies and pointed to the country’s bid for more influence overseas as a sign that it must be countered.