MEDIA PACKAGE: Select Committee on CCP Holds Hearing on Chinese Influence Operations, Propaganda
WASHINGTON, D.C.- This evening, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, held a hearing titled "Discourse Power: The CCP's Strategy to Shape the Global Information Space". In the hearing, members explored the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda, censorship, and disinformation tactics, and how these efforts are supercharged by technology like TikTok, exploitative of our democratic openness, and more focused than ever on American public opinion.
The Select Committee was joined by witnesses Mr. John Garnaut of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Dr. Miles Yu of the Hudson Institute, and Ms. Yaqiu Wang of Freedom House.
Watch highlights from the hearing below.
Video & B-roll for public broadcast and distribution is available HERE
Click HERE for Chairman Gallagher's opening remarks
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Chairman Gallagher:
“On Xi’s smokeless battlefield, TikTok is the perfect weapon. It’s camouflaged in plain sight.”
View a downloadable clip of Chairman Gallagher's opening remarks HERE.
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Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi:
“If we turn our heads and look away, we risk ceding control of our public discourse to the Chinese Communist Party… We must lean hard on our values of truth and democracy.”
View a downloadable clip of Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi HERE.
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Mr. John Garnaut, Australian Strategic Policy Institute:
“The Chinese Communist Party has an obsession with language, with discourse… and I think it’s important to understand… for the Chinese Political System it’s the primary target. Discourse is the primary battlefield.”
View a downloadable clip of Mr. Garnaut HERE.
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Dr. Miles Yu, Hudson Institute
“China’s discourse dominance use tools of free expression to destroy freedom. They use X, Facebook, and TikTok to spread this propaganda.
In 2020 alone, Facebook had to shut down over 200,000 fake accounts organized by China’s propaganda.”
View a downloadable clip of Dr. Yu HERE.
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Read Chairman Gallagher's opening remarks HERE.
Read Mr. Garnaut's written testimony HERE.
Read Dr. Yu's written testimony HERE.
Read Ms. Wang's written testimony HERE.
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