‘I’m Singaporean’: TikTok CEO defends himself

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Video clips of US Senator Tom Cotton’s persistent grilling of TikTok’s Singaporean CEO Chew Shou Zi on his nationality and alleged links to China’s Communist Party on January 31, 2024, have sparked anger online. Many accused the politician of racism, saying he showed a lack of understanding of Singapore.

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[moshesafdie]

American's knowledge in geography always questionable

[buttxrontoast-]

Cotton: "Do you like cats?"
CEO: "Yes."
Cotton: *"OH, SO YOU HATE DOGS NOW?"*

[edwinmarquez]

Terrible. And this man is a US official? What a disgrace..

[curiouspeople]

Singapore citizenship is 10x better than USA 🇺🇸 citizenship. Much lower tax is just the start

[seescafedeu]

The quality of US senate is laughable 🤣🤣🤣

[tmzfshm]

Shame on the senators with no brains asking brainless questions and not doing what the tax payers paid them to do, ask intelligent and purposeful questions.

[ajisenramen]

0:08 “Have you applied for American citizenship?”
The look on Chew’s Face was like “ And I never will .” 😂

[Mila]

Which part of 'i am singaporean' does he not understand? Spoken as a singaporean.
Pathetic work by an American senator.

[coe]

The senator did not know what a Singaporean is

[yojimbo]

He might as well just say, "Are your parents from China? Are you of ethnic Chinese lineage??? AHA! You ARE Chinese! I KNEW

[marvinfok]

Cotton: Are a member of the Chinese Communist Party?
Chew: No, I am not. I am a Singaporean.
Cotton: No? Since Singapore is a city in China, so tell me why you are not a member of the CCP?
Chew:

[Ricky_]

It's not shown in the clip but he later on asks him if he believes that China is committing crimes against the Uyghurs. Shou Zi then explained that people are open to discuss that on TikTok. So, senator Cotton asked him again multiple times. I must say I am very impressed at how the CEO kept his cool throughout all this. I would have just asked Cotton about what's going on Palestine and see what his answer would have been. What an embarrassment of a human being. American politicians are really mad Facebook can't compete with TikTok anymore 😂

Edit: for anyone wondering, Cotton uploaded the full video on his own YouTube channel. The video currently has 267 likes and 1.4k dislikes

[derrislie]

Even as an Indonesian I can't help but be offended by that senator's words.

[clchat]

His name is Cotton, is he coming from Xinjiang?

[QiuQiuChannel-nixj]

This is a true insult for singaporean as a whole

[mahadev]

Someone please tell this senator that till now China itself didn't claim Singapore belongs to the People's republic of China!

[ainurabazekenova]

Does that senator know where is Singapore??

[Kamiyartz]

Remember, to this man, whether you are Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese living in various countries, as long as everyone of us look the same to him, we are all chinese spies.
A really funny man.

[johnkim]

I know why this guy finished his Army career with captain rank.

[iskotayo]

Singapore is like the most western oriented country in the entire SEA 😂😂😂😂... Telling a singaporean that he is pro china is mind blowing for us in the region... 🤯🤯🤯🤯