but you are going to have to pack up your toys and go home now. enough is enough. i m not sure putin will do that obviously. bret: putin, the actions in ukraine, obviously, will be a focus here at the reagan national defense forum, kimberly. as will china and maybe more so. here is the back and forth on tiktok. and the concern about this. the problem that we have, you know, can really requires third party verification and requires transparency. we have rigorous data access protocols such that only a team made up of u.s. residents can have access to that u.s. data. bite dance, which owns tiktok is saying no, no, the servers are kept in the united states but in the fine print, they still have a back door right out to beijing. bret: it seems more and more that this is becoming a real national security threat or at least it s being talked about it more. kimberly if you want to have a
hundredths. nasdaq rose 2. there is increasing scrutiny tonight on the social media site tiktok. new report indicates the chinese-run business is attempting to meddle in american politics. hillary vaughn has the story tonight from capitol hill. increasingly people use tiktok as a news source. i think what they are really trying to do is launch ideological war trying to turn americans against america. tough talk on tiktok from lawmakers who say china is using the video sharing platform to rain to influence u.s. elections by posting content attacking u.s. politicians. they hit rubio. they hit ted cruz. they hit abbott. and the entity running these political ads is a registered foreign agent of the chinese che communist party.
videos like this flooded tiktok in the run up to the midterm election. forbes reports tiktok reports run by the propaganda arm of the chinese government have millions of followers and the videos have tens of millions of views. i m very concerned about what is happening with tiktok and parent company bite dance. the amount of propaganda and the amount of information it s sucking from young americans. tiktok says it is working to clearly label these videos quote we plan to introduce our state controlled media policy and corresponding labels globally next year. the global rollout will include china state media. china weaponizing tiktok is one thing washington is worried about. the biden administration says china s threat is growing bigger as the country uses its tech influence as a military strategy. they re accelerating their efforts to fuse economic and technology policies with their military ambitions. today, london bailed on plans to let china build a giant new embassy there.
policy on how you are going to handle some of these cybersecurity threats and other entities like tiktok, you have to have a bigger china policy in general. what is it? in terms of the biden administration and china and that s at the biggest level. how do we actually view china? is it adversary? is it strategic threat? is it an economic competitor? not to mention lack of policy in any of these individual areas whether it be tech or how we counter their navy, or whether we have a free trade to rival them in region, economically. there is just really no there there. bret: and we are following the elon musk thing. from everything we can see, so far, twitter on the inside is leaking or giving these documents to matt taibbi, and they are going to put them out one by one. lay it out and then do a q and a. right now we are to the point where 2020 specific requests for