A group of Silicon Valley executives, including Peter Thiel, and some U.S. lawmakers are meeting on Wednesday to discuss China, national security, and other concerns ahead of TikTok’s CEO’s appearance before Congress on Thursday.
The group is called the Hill & Valley Forum and is hosting a dinner on Wednesday evening with about 200 attendees.
- The
dinner is being paid for by venture-capital firms 137 Ventures,
Founders Fund, and Jacob Helberg, a former Google policy adviser.
- Helberg is also a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
- Expected speakers at the dinner include Thiel, investor Vinod Khosla, and other founders, financiers, and executives.
- Helberg
and others attending the dinner have been prepping Congress with lines
of questions about TikTok in preparation for the testimony with TikTok
CEO Shou Zi Chew.
- The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners sell their stake in the social media app or risk a U.S. ban.
