Want to know why there’s a serious push to ban TikTok in the United States? Listen to what Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of a book called “The Great U.S. China Tech War,” said recently in an interview with Fox News. This will make the bipartisan urgency seem pretty clear.
He opined that TikTok is a tool the Chinese communist government uses to promote social disruption in the United States. Their goal? To weaken the system of government in this country.
“It is committing genocide, crimes against humanity; it deliberately spread COVID-19 beyond its borders — that 6.7 million people outside of China who have died from a disease that should have never left the central part of that country. You know, we can go on and on. But clearly, China is engaging in a series of acts which are destructive not only toward the United States but the international community as a whole.”
He was just getting warmed up.
“President Trump banned TikTok along with WeChat. President Biden, one of the first things he did was he reversed that ban. We know that over the course of years, about three or four of them, TikTok has been making representations to the U.S. about how it doesn’t allow data to be sent to China. And it’s violated every single assurance it’s given to the U.S. But it’s not just stealing data.”
The end game for China is very obvious to Chang, and his perplexed why we would allow TikTok to continue to be used in the United States.
“China is using the TikTok algorithm to disseminate Chinese propaganda, glorifying drug use, promoting violence on American streets, and this year, disseminating Russian narratives about the Ukraine war. So this really is an attempt to undermine and actually even overthrow the U.S. government. And why we permit it? I don’t know. India banned TikTok; we should do the same thing.”
If the dancing dad videos aren’t reason enough to remove the TikTok app permanently, then this story should be an eye-opener that makes you seriously consider if using the app is wise.
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