“We cannot allow the [Chinese Communist Party] to command the internet, which was designed to connect people, not to divide and control them,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), ranking member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. “This is a fight the U.S. cannot afford to lose.”
The committee held a hearing Tuesday morning titled “The Great Firewall and the CCP’s Export of its Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State.” Witnesses included Nat Kretchun, senior vice president for programs at the Open Technology Fund; Zack Cooper, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; and Xiao Qiang, founder and editor-in-chief of the China Digital Times.