With increasing China's link in data leak on short-video making app, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday was grilled by the US Congress. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before the US Congress over Chinese government's influence over TikTok's parent company ByteDance. During the confrontation, Chew faced hostile questioning from the committee and assured that the social media giant is taking "real action" to address the national security concerns of the US. There were multiple questions asked by the US Congress from Chrew including India's action on them. However, what raised everyone's eyebrows when Chew was asked point blank what ByteDance will do if China's government asks them to hand them over the data of Americans? Continue reading to know his answer-
Dan Crenshaw asked point blank, "China's 2017 National Intelligence law states very clearly that any organization or citizen shall support and corporate with State intelligence work in accordance with the law and maintain the secrecy of all knowledge of state intelligence.. In other words, ByteDance and also your TikTok employees that live in China they must cooperate with Chinese intelligence whenever they are called upon and if they are called upon they are bound to secrecy that would include you. So, Mr. Chew if the CCP tells ByteDance to turn over all data that TikTok has collected inside the U.S, do they have to according to Chinese law?"