{"id":1713301,"date":"2022-10-27T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713301"},"modified":"2022-10-27T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:39:57","slug":"top-dem-admits-trump-was-right-about-tiktok-and-chinese-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-dem-admits-trump-was-right-about-tiktok-and-chinese-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Dem Admits Trump Was Right About TikTok And Chinese Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-dem-admits-trump-was-right-about-tiktok-and-chinese-spying%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A top Democratic lawmaker told an Australian audience this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-kills-trump-ban-on-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-accused-of-spying-instead-asks-for-further-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former President Trump<\/a> was right when he warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tiktok-responds-to-explosive-report-alleging-plans-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok was a tool of the Chinese<\/a> Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tiktok-responds-to-explosive-report-alleging-plans-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sen. Mark Warner<\/a>, who heads the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, offered rare praise to Trump, whose 2020 bid to ban the app was blocked by a federal court. Trump then tried to force the CCP-controlled company ByteDance to relinquish its ability to access U.S. users\u2019 data, but the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-kills-trump-ban-on-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-accused-of-spying-instead-asks-for-further-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shelved that plan last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago,\u201d Warner said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/trump-was-right-on-tiktok-threat-leading-democrat-20221024-p5bsd3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Warner, during a visit to fellow \u201cFive Eyes\u201d country Australia to meet with intel officials, political leaders, and business people, said the U.S. military bars service members from downloading TikTok\u2019s app. Parents should be worried about the addictive platform being used by China to harvest data on their children, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Warner listed the 1 billion-active-user social media platform as one of several Chinese-controlled tech companies that can be turned against users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456169\" class=\"wp-image-456169 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-864x576.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who heads the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, offered rare praise to Trump, who initially sought to ban the app, but in 2020 threatened to shut down its U.S. operation unless the CCP-controlled company ByteDance relinquished its ability to access U.S. users\u2019 data.\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-864x576-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-1800x1200-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1357716031-1200x800-1.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-456169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner told an Australian audience former President Trump was right to be concerned about TikTok. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok, if your population uses WeChat as a social media platform, the ability for China to have undue influence is, I think, a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict,\u201d Warner said. \u201cChina having this kind of technology domination in a number of countries ought to scare the heck out of us because we\u2019ve seen the kind of Orwellian surveillance state they\u2019ve already created within China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beijing requires companies and citizens by law to \u201csupport, assist and co-operate with the state intelligence work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Biden administration<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is still trying to work out a deal to allow TikTok to operate in the U.S. but follow Trump\u2019s demands that it seperate American users\u2019 data and protect it from Chinese officials. Industry experts have expressed doubt that a workable deal can be reached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless they\u2019re going to rebuild the system in the United States at great expense, sooner or later, when something goes wrong, there\u2019s going to turn out to be only one engineer who knows how to fix it,\u201d national security lawyer Stewart Baker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-19\/tiktok-security-deal-is-likely-to-leave-us-data-leaking-to-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg\">told<\/a>\u00a0Bloomberg. \u201cAnd he or she is likely to be in China.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Democratic lawmaker told an Australian audience this week that former President Trump was right when he warned that TikTok was a tool of the Chinese Communist Party. Virginia Sen. 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