Chew asked why TikTok exec dodged questions on China's treatment of Uyghurs

By Rebecca Shabad

Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., questioned Chew about why TikTok's head of public policy for the Americas, Michael Beckerman, refused to condemn the Chinese government's treatment of ethnic Uyghurs in an interview on CNN.

"When Mr. Beckerman was with Jake Tapper on CNN, and asked repeatedly to condemn Chinese treatment, Chinese communist government treatment of the Uyghurs when that treatment has been classified in the United States as a genocide, when a U.N. report classified it as a crime against humanity, why after multiple questions, Mr. Beckman refused to address that? Are you afraid of the Chinese communist government?" Palmer asked.

"No," Chew said, attempting to elaborate, but Palmer interrupted him several times.