Congress demanded TikTok divestiture —Trump’s deal hands China a loophole
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In 2020, the Trump administration admitted that Tiktok was masked by the US Foreign Investment Committee (CFIUS) as a news of Tiktok as a news – China Communist Party (CCP).
The Congress accepted this danger and in 2024, Tiktok passed the two -party legislation, which required to be sold to American owners or explicitly banned. The conservative majority in the Supreme Court approved the law. The task could not be clearer: disposed or prohibited. There is no third option.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration now offers a “framework agreement” that is inadequate for what the law requires. Instead of a clean break, the bid will allow the Bayta to hold a chair of a board of directors while renting the algorithm to a group of American investors. This may sound like a compromise, but it is actually a delivery. Licensing is not property and monitoring is not control. ByTedance will protect one of the most powerful tools to influence the American minds and to carry out psychological war against the West, as long as it maintains its ability to replace the algorithm from Beijing. The management indirectly accepts the weakness of the agreement by revealing Oracle’s ability to “fully examine”. What the administration cannot say itself is that these controls seek evidence of the ongoing manipulation of the platform.
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The problem is not theoretical. After Tiktok’s terrorist attacks and Brian Thompson assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Unitedhealthcare, we saw how he conveyed American feeds with anti -Semitic propaganda following the rough celebrations of political violence. While the flames of the local American conflict are fans, Tiktok buys any content that criticizes China: for example, the Uighur Genocide, the printing in Hong Kong and the massacre of the Tiananmen Square in Hong Kong.
In a not surprising way, the algorithm, which offers such a toxic content cocktail in the United States, is banned in Turkey. This is the essence of the war war. To allow China to take a hand in the arms of Tiktok’s algorithm, allowing the CCP to continue to shape what our children are watching and believing.
If Beijing holds Tiktok’s control in a crisis, the chaos can roughly turn into half of the American population. Imagine that China went to war with Taiwan, then filled Tiktok with pro -CCP messages, disinformation about conflict, and increases a public campaign that should not do anything to help Taipei. The CCP rely on American leaders who ignore this possibility.
The precedent is equally disturbing. Congress spoke in one voice to make it necessary to disposal. The courts confirmed this. Nevertheless, instead of carrying out the law in writing, the administration is trying to redefine the “disposal” to something much weaker – a cosmetic restructuring that leaves the core of Tiktok’s technology under Chinese control. This agreement does not apply the law; He’s running away from the law.
We should not ignore the greater strategic cost of embracing the soothe dressed as pragmatism. Washington blessed this structure, indicating that American national security can be negotiated according to semi -criteria and gaps, such as the agreement of permission to Nvidia Chip sales as long as Uncle Samca receives 15 percent cut. Beijing understands this game well. Every centimeter that we accept in Tiktok will strengthen them only to get more strange demands in trade negotiations and military diplomacy. The Americans who trust the conservatives to confront the CCP should be worried and disappointed.
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The truth is that this agreement does not honor the law and does not protect the American people. It maintains the influence of China, weakens the authority of the Congress, and erodes the principle of sovereignty in which conservatives have long been going on for a long time. We would never allow the Soviet Union to make a script for night news during the Cold War. Why should we let the ÇKP manipulate the screens in their hands today?
It is time for protection. The conservatives in the congress should not sit quietly, this agreement is compressed under the guise of compliance with the law. Since Tiktok is a national security threat, we must demand full -handed – no minority shares, no algorithm rent, no fig leaves. Less is a betrayal of law and an extremely generous privilege to the CCP.
Michael Sobolik is a senior man who specializes in the United States-China relations at the Hudson Institute.
