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#RC: TikTok loses. Brandon Weichert, author of the just-released Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, on China's weaponization of TikTok. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#RC: TikTok loses. Brandon Weichert, author of the just-released Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, on China's weaponization of TikTok. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/tiktok-bill-ban-house-vote-af4d0800?mod=hp_lead_pos1

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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

0:07.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

Gordon Chang, that at Gordon G Chang.

0:15.0

Very, very major news out of the US Congress.

0:19.0

U.S. House passes bill to force Bight Dance to divest Tik-Tock or face-band.

0:27.0

The copy reads Reuters Dateline.

0:30.8

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give

0:35.8

Tik-Tok's Chinese owner Baitance six months to divest the U.S. assets of the

0:42.0

short video app used by 170 million Americans or face a ban.

0:49.2

The bill passed 352 to 65 bipartisan support.

0:55.0

We welcome Gordon Chang at Gordon G Chang

0:58.7

and Brandon Weicher, the contributor

1:01.8

to the national interest and the author most recently of Shadow Wars,

1:05.0

to help me understand Tik-Tok, now banned by vote of the U.S. Congress House of Representatives overwhelmingly.

1:14.0

Whenever you see these scale of numbers, there's got to be a backstory.

1:18.0

Brandon, a very good evening to you. Thank you very much.

1:22.0

I do not have Tik-Tock. I've only ever heard about it,

1:25.4

but I've been reading about it these last days because of this controversy that now comes to

1:29.6

the vote in the House. If I had Tik-Tok on my phone or if I put it in there, what risk am I taking?

1:37.0

Good evening to you.

1:38.0

Well, good evening, John, and hello Gordon. Thank you for having me and you're right to question it because the way that

1:45.0

Tik-Tok has sold to us is it's just harmless taking pictures of cats and

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