Chair, House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
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Chair, House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party - Pushing oversight and warning against algorithm ties to ByteDance
The deal closed on January 22, 2026. TikTok's U.S. operations now belong to TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC—a new entity where Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX each hold 15%, existing ByteDance investor affiliates hold 30.1%, and ByteDance itself retains exactly 19.9%. The ownership math clears the statutory threshold, but the hard work starts now: Oracle must replicate and retrain the recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data alone, while ByteDance loses access to American data flows and direct control over the feed that made TikTok dominant.
Updated Jan 22
U.S. Representative; Chair, House Select Committee on China - Demanding a Commerce Department briefing and documents on the H200 policy shift
The Trump administration just did the thing Washington has spent years swearing it wouldn’t do: let China buy a near-top-tier Nvidia AI chip again. Now a key China hawk in Congress is demanding the Commerce Department explain, in detail, why this isn’t a strategic own-goal.
Updated Dec 13, 2025
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